Imagine all the people...

Evan has a fantastic imagination. He's a really creative kid with the memory of Ken Jennings. He loves to talk about all of the characters from Nintendo (a la mario kart wii) and Star Wars [he's never seen an episode, he just plays with the action figures that i had]. He's also created his own characters named King Hocken, MegaJon, and Mole Hut (accompanied by bearazoids).

His latest interest has become comparing the abilities and alliances of each of the characters. All day long he constantly asks things like: "who is anakin friends with?", "who does obi-wan protect people from?", "who is faster than yoshi?", etc. etc. etc.

Then he starts to add a level of complexity to his questions by mixing the genres and asking things like: "is jabba the hutt faster than bowser?". As a fan of nintendo and star wars i can answer most of his questions without getting too thrown, but he asks Becky these types of questions ALL DAY LONG too. I'm sure she never thought that she would become an expert on the relative top speed of luigi vs. donkey kong.

It gets really funny when he and Aaron start to talk about it together because they argue about whether or not Grandpa Backes is faster than Yoshi. Then it leads to Aaron saying that HE is faster than Grandpa, but Evan denies that claim. Then Evan says that he's right because he's going to be five... and every time Aaron responds by saying "i'm six!". It's awesome to hear them talk about it together.


I love Evan's mind.