Carter and Archie were reading the World Wildlife Fund catalogue this morning prompting several fun conversations as I was making breakfast.
Archie: (presenting the WWF catalogue) I changed my mind about Christmas.
Me: (Relieved to be off the hook for an “actual working jetpack”) You have? Tell me.
Archie: I want a bald eagle. (points to the catalogue) A real one.
The jet pack is looking like Santa’s easiest choice now.
Carter then appeared, suggesting that I might like a Meerkat and reminiscing about his favorite song from a few years back, I’m a gnu.
Carter: Maybe they have an Okapi in the catalogue.
Me: Perhaps.
Carter: Okapi. Those are in Danny Dunn, and in that song. (humming a little) Not a bison, not an Okapi, I’m a guh-nu.
Me: (singing along) I wish I could guhnash my teeth at you.
Carter: Ha! I used to think that song was saying “I’m a canoe.” Then I realized that canoes can’t talk. So then I thought it was gnu. Then I realized gnus don’t talk either, so I went back to thinking it was a canoe.
I can’t wait until he starts listening to classic rock.
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Carter, you are a funny child! lol Liam wants a machine to make things invisible. Perhaps we can combine ideas and get the guys a back pack that jets them along and makes it so no one can see them???
an invisibility jetpack? I’d never be able to find them. . . unless I followed the trail of junk they drop around the house. That might work. Hi Liesl!!
hmm… perhaps he would settle for a bald eagle wearing an invisibility jetpack???