Here is one of Ruby’s favorite books, which used to belong to her cousins, and which I accidentally took home this past visit. Ahem.
Moving along.
So there’s three pages.
War and Peace this is not.
The first page is the dog page, and I always go, “Here’s a dog, it goes ‘woof woof!’”
The last page is the cat page, and I go, “Here’s a cat, it goes ‘meow meow!’”
But I am always stumped when I am on the second page.
It’s a rabbit.
I suppress the urge to go, “Ribbit, ribbit!” and instead say something lame like, “Here’s a rabbit, it likes carrots.”
I don’t know why it bugs me so much, but it does. I badly want to make a sound to keep with the flow of MY imaginary story.
But what sound do I tell her a rabbit makes?
Maybe this is a good time to teach her, sometimes in life, you learn to accept silence is the only answer.
The mystery of the quiet rabbit: I thought rabbits are shy, meek and quiet animals, until I was at friend’s house who has a caged-up rabbit. I swore I heard like 3 stamps so loud that I thot my boy made it until my friend told me it was IT. The rabbit appeared really innocent and still, never would have thot it came from her! They sure have a temperament.
The mystery of the quiet rabbit: I thought rabbits are shy, meek and quiet animals, until I was at friend’s house who has a caged-up rabbit. I swore I heard like 3 stamps so loud that I thot my boy made it until my friend told me it was IT. The rabbit appeared really innocent and still, never would have thot it came from it! They sure have a temperament.
Ahh….so that’s where it went – thousands of miles away….nevermind. They didn’t miss it.
I thought of “Here’s the rabbit. It goes ‘hop, hop, hop’! How about that?
Heh heh……