Embracing the invisible

A brief guide to some of the invisible phenomena who populate the lives of my children:

1. The Easter Bunny
   TheHurricane: "The Easter Rabbit Bunny brings baskets and chocolate eggs and jelly bean eggs and candy eggs."
   Butterfly: "I've never seen the Easter Bunny."
   Rabbit: "Chocolate! Chocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolate!"
   TheHurricane: "The Bunny hides all th'eggs."
   Rabbit: "I want the chocolate ones! Daddy, can I have all the chocolate ones?"
   Butterfly: "No, I want chocolate ones too! Daddy, we have to share, right?"
   Rabbit: "No! All the chocolate ones are mine!"
   Butterfly: "Daddy!"
   (fistfight ensues)
   
2. Santa Claus
   Butterfly: "I know all about Santa. He lives at the North Pole and he comes on Christmas and he gives you presents."
   Rabbit: "He was mean to Rudolph." (See 4:30 for incontrovertible evidence)
   Me: "Yeah, he was kind of a dick to Rudolph."
   Rabbit: "Yeah, he was a kind of a dick."
   Me: "That means he was a dictator — like he was a mean boss. Like Cruella."
   Butterfly: "But then he was nice, right?"
   Me: "Sure, once he needed Rudolph. Then he was all jolly and full of love."
   Rabbit: "I want presents."
   Me: "Then you'd better be good. Otherwise Santa will be mean to you, like he was mean to Rudolph."
   Rabbit: (looking sad) "I'll be good, Daddy."
3. The Tooth Fairy
   Butterfly: "The Tooth Fairy... I don't know what the Tooth Fairy does."
   TheHurricane: "The Tooth Fairy gives you presents!"
   Me: "Under your pillow, right?"
   TheHurricane: "A book!"
   Rabbit: "When you lose all your teeth, The Tooth Fairy comes and takes them away!"
   TheWife: "You usually don't lose all your teeth at the same time."
   Me: "Unless you play hockey. Who wants to play hockey?"
   Rabbit, Butterfly, TheHurricane: "Me!!!"
4. Ghosts
   Rabbit: "Sometimes, there's a ghost in our house that does a lot of burps."
   Butterfly: "That's not a ghost — that's Mommy."
   Me: "That's right. It's always Mommy's fault."
   TheWife: "Hey!"
   Butterfly: "And sometimes the ghost does stinky gas, too."
   Rabbit: "Ewwwww! Stinky gas!"
   Me: "Those are the worst kind of ghosts."
5. The Grinch
   (I don't know about your house, but the Grinch has a long and colorful history in our family lore...)
   
   
6. The Cat in the Hat
   Butterfly: "One time at school, the Cat in the Hat came into our classroom and he moved all our stuff."
   Me: "The Cat in the Hat?"
   Rabbit: "And he left a note on the board."
   Me: "Ooookay... what did the note say?"
   Butterfly: "It said, HAAAAAAA HAAAAAAA. Because he's sneaky and mean."

Of course, what with us being heathens, our grasp of the invisible is somewhat lacking in patriarchal deity-style figures. But that excepted... who are we missing?