Lists have a way of illustrating what a person is really like sometimes. Eli, as you can see, is an imaginative optimist. Christmas is three months away, of course, but dreaming is what he does 365 days a year.

He makes me laugh — all the time.

The list (so far):

1 kilo black ball with white writing saying one kilo

an anvil

an antique cash register

a fake skeleton

a crash test dummy

some knight armor

a leather underwater ninja suit

a saint bernard collar barrel

a saint bernard

a rubber ducky that quacks when you squeeze it

a star — preferably a middle aged one, blue in color, and located in the Milky Way

an anchor

some gold foil