Tuesday, November 8, 2016

A little humor for election day

 
Little Guy tells me he is Hannah, and puts the sword of the spirit (from his hand-me-down toy armor set) in my insulated lunch bag and carries it off as his french horn, waving to me over his shoulder, and calling out, "Have a great time!" I tell him to have a great time at school, but he tells me he's going to a concert. 

He sits on the couch quietly, holding his french horn, and after a few minutes, claps excitedly, and says, "Great job, Esther!" 

Then he gets up from the couch (his seat in the auditorium, I can only presume), and walks a few feet forward to begin his (Hannah's) part of the concert.  

But before he can start playing his french horn, he sees a book sitting on the couch, and calls out, "My pigs!" and runs to the couch and flips through, "If you give a pig a pancake," while narrrating many of the steps a pig farmer takes in caring for his pigs, until that gets old, and he rushes back to take the stage with his french horn bag.

But, all of a sudden, the act of pulling the french horn out of the bag reminds him of summer reading program at the library this year, when the guest, a naturalist, pulled a skunk out of a bag, so he comes running, full-speed across the living room and kitchen and shows me his outstretched hand.  "Do you know what this is?" he asks excitedly.  "A kuk!"  "A duck?"  "No! A kuk!"  "Oh! A skunk!"  

And on the morning goes.  ... About as unpredictable as the election. :)


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