More on Gochar

This Saturday we are taking both kids on a plane, flying to Florida and spending a week at Disney land. It is a time sensitive indulgence; every other year of our children’s lives Rob will be teaching and the token trip to Disney would have to have occurred at either March break (yikes!), Christmas (impossible) or during the summer heat. Realizing that Mia will in no way whatsoever benefit from The Trip to Disney, we are taking this opportunity to spoil at least ONE of our children while Rob is off on parental leave.

It doesn’t hurt that our trip also coincides with the annual Food and Wine festival at Epcot. Which, coincidentally, is where we are staying.

I digress.

The point of this post is to update you on yet another interesting family dinner. Amidst the excitement of packing, planning and preparing for the trip, Toby could think of nothing other to talk of than…Gochar.

I seem to be mentioning Gochar quite a bit in recent posts so I thought I should share with you some of the truths about Gocahr that Toby enlightened us on tonight at dinner.

(Gochar, by the way, is Toby’s imaginary friend. At least…I HOPE he is imaginary. I SOMETIMES wonder if there may be a ghost living in our house with the unfortunate name of Gochar but to keep us all sane we just go with it…)

So here is what Toby (with equal measures of seriousness and earnestness) repeatedly interrupted our Disney planning meal to tell us :

Gochar is tall. In fact, he is the tallest man in the world. (Demonstrated with hand gestures.)

“Know how big his head is? THIS BIG”

(arms extended as wide as Toby can reach)

“Know how long his legs are? THIS BIG”

(arms reaching down as far as they can reach)

“Know how big his belly is? THIS BIG”

(arms forming the biggest circle Toby can form with his two decrepit little arms)

Yes indeed, there was a visual picture for just how big Gocahr is; tallest man in the world (except for his mom, of course, who is taller than him.) He is also, I have to say, COMPLETELY out of proportion.

“How do you hug him, Toby, if he is so tall?” I asked.

Toby took this question very seriously and thought about if for a bit as he chewed his pizza (I believe we even got in a brief discussion about carry on luggage for Mia) when he announced that it WAS possible to hug him, you just had to “crouch on your tippy toes” to do so.

Other interesting facts?

Gochar likes to cook. His favourite thing to cook is salad and he makes chocolate salad dressing. But his mom always say, “Gochar, you can’t eat that. “ but he does anyways.

Gochar drives a car. It has orange tires.

Gochar has a last name.

Wait for it…

THOMAS.

And so you have it - -Gochar Thomas, the tallest man in the world (except for his mother), recognized by his fancy car with orange wheels and well versed in culinary expertise and wildly rebellious bodily proportions, continues to enrich our lives with his very presence. I wonder if he’s coming to Florida with us…