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Two nights ago before bed, she told me, "I'm sending a note to the Tooth Fairy.” … but as she was preparing for bed tonight she found a new note scrawled on paper in the bathroom—from the skeletons….
After losing the second of her front teeth last week, my daughter made the usual pact with her fae friends, exchanging the tooth for geld. What I didn't expect was that a couple nights later she would ask, "Daddy, what happens if I leave money for the Tooth Fairy?"
While I'm not getting a ton of writing on the Monstervore book done, the ideas never stop flowing from my young world-builder. Naturally, lately some of the ideas have to do with diseases in Kabos…
“Where did the FIRST skeleton come from?” That’s up to you, I said. Kabos is a land made up of your stories, so the answer to any question can be whatever you want. “There was a man,” she started…
My daughter has begun losing her baby teeth, and so her investigations into the Tooth Fairy have begun…
My daughter wore her Monstervore dress to school today, and told me I should tell all our Internet friends about all the hard work she's been doing making up more about the land of Kabos…
She continues to tie her growing grasp of the real world into bits and pieces of the fantastic from stories we read, and the world where her Monstervores can explore and seek out new monsters to battle (and eat) continues to grow…
While I didn’t get any Monstervore writing done on my recent trip like I’d (perhaps foolishly) hoped, I’m making great progress now that I’m back in the saddle…
One morning earlier this week, she was dancing around while getting ready for school, singing,
Mister Bye, Mister Bye,
Mister Bye and Doctor Die
Bye, Die, Bye, Die,
Why, Hi, Bye Die!
She comes running up to me across the living room. “Daddy,” she says, excitedly. “Daddy, I’ve made a legend book!” She thrusts a folded sheet of paper folded into my hands. She’s scrawled on the front and back. It looks like a book. “It says the shadows of dawn have been discovered!”
I’ve finally drawn something I’ve wanted to make for a long time— a better map of Kabos!
Being a kid, she climbed all over the park’s sculptures. And being us, we figured out how it all tied into the world of the monstervores…
Smoke from the California wildfires kept a very disappointed girl penned up inside. I didn’t want the whole day to be just television, so I broke out a pair of plaster bird statues and we went to work…
I promised in the last Adventure Update that I’d share the story of the Season Queen. It all started when I showed her a picture I had reposted on Facebook recently, from back when she was a baby. “The Autumn Queen sits on her throne…” I read from the caption.
It’s been way too long since I’ve been able to spend a marathon session playing role-playing games, and I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed drawing to help me focus. I took advantage of the opportunity to draw some of my daughter’s Monstervore bestiary.
I have officially started writing, and I’ve been instructed that it should be in the form of a dictionary. I don’t know if it will end up in that form, but for now a massive alphabetical list is helping me drag together all the notes she’s given me and start fleshing them out.
I showed her the list of our ideas this morning at breakfast. Some she remembered, and some she had forgotten. What should we do now?, I asked.
"You make stories and games for us," she said matter-of-factly.
Summer is drawing to a close, so today we set out for one last hike in a local park and she insisted on bringing her monstervore costume so we could take some pictures "out in the wilderness."
“So have you and the monstervores ever seen a golem? What word was on its head?”
“We did, but it wasn’t a word,” she said. “It had a map drawn on it.”
The Monster Factory is up to full speed. I reminded her that a while back she said that a monstervore could be a Fooler and or a Hunter who liked to make masks of monsters, so we spent a few afternoons making monster masks.
