Ode to King

Dave has a sick sense of humor sometimes.  

He recently thought it would be great to teach the girls about Steven King's The Shining.  I remember when I was pregnant that he was terribly excited to dress them up as the twin girls that Danny sees in the hallway.  He also expressed tremendous delight at the prospect of freaking them out  when their teeth fell out by putting dried pieces of corn on their pillows and screaming that they'd lost all their teeth.  He thought that would be funny.  Strange, huh?

Okay, so back to The Shining.  They now can curl their index fingers and growl "Red Rum, Red Rum!"  Dave is delighted.  I think it's beyond bizarre.  So this weekend during lunch, Taylor had just tried to scare  me and then began to sing, SING "Red Rum, Red Rum, Red Rum," for about 5 minutes!  Grrrrreat.

Thanks to Dave for helping the girls develop their weird side.  I kind of thought it would be me, but Dave has me beat for a long time with this one.  

Devistation

Dear Sesame Street,

You have crushed my 3 year-old daughter.  She has recently discovered your show, but can no longer watch it.  We were having so much fun learning with your lovely characters, especially Ernie and Bert.  Until yesterday.

I was in the kitchen cleaning up the girls' breakfast dishes.  Suddenly, Cassidy yelled at me, "Mommy!" and then started crying.  Rushing in to the playroom, I hugged her and asked what had happened.  She pointed to the television and uttered incoherently.  Clearly, something quite terrible had happened.

After she had calmed down enough to tell me what was going on, she said, "Mommy, 'C' is for 'cookie,'" in a voice filled with devastation.  Not understanding where she was going with this, I agreed with her, somewhat pridefully, I must admit.  She looked at me with tears in her eyes.  Then she said, "'C' is for cookie!  Not CASSIDY."  

Yep, we've lost our love for Sesame Street.  Mean old Cookie Monster has crushed her intellectual world.  Damn his love of all things cookie.  

We'll miss you, Ernie and Bert!