If someone gives your five year old a furry toy camel that sings in Arabic, it should be no surprise that come the next morning you hear "Daddy, my dream was real. I was surrounded by real camels." Was it my mistake that I told her that camels bite and smell really bad?"Gerald McBoing-Boing" is a character created by Dr. Seuss in the 1950s. He's a small boy, who cannot talk but only makes noises--so you may think that his conversations are much like real dialogue with toddlers. If he meets animals, he brays or bellows or howls like they do. Dr. Seuss is no genius, just very observant. Two of my daughters are curled on the floor watching this cartoon child at work--or play.
My little one has been discussing Halloween costumes with me, and is very excited to see the father in one cartoon series dressed as/in a bowl of spaghetti. Her older sister thinks it's a cool outfit. Maybe, it's her sister's cough medication working. But if not, then I may have to cut off her sister's university allowance or send her for therapy.
Now, they are watching "Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs". Terence the tiny Pteradactyl. ... Lines like "Safer than a salad in a snow storm."... Grief!
All of this is just by way of preparation. Today, our plan is to go to see dinosaurs and natural history stuff at the Redpath Museum.
I have a feeling that the Triceratops skeleton that we are due to see later, who is affectionately called "Sarah", will be with us during the night.
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