Wow. It's been nine months since I've blogged. Don't get me wrong, I've had lots of ideas to write about and share. I think what holds me back is that I'm a much more private person than I thought I would be. So, lots to write about in retrospect but for now I'll provide a little nugget from this evening.
I traveled to my brother-in-law's in Winona, MN to borrow an inflatable water slide. On the way there Evalyn and I were playing "I Spy." A few minutes in she made the game harder by saying, "I spy with my little eye something outside of the car and it is pretend and not real." After literally 15 minutes of me asking questions and guessing, she told me it was a unicorn named "Uni." So we continued playing this game...moving on to Pegasus, Centaurs, Cupids, Apollo, and Nyx. This in turn swung to glyptodons, sabre-toothed cats, mastodons, the Columbian Mammoth, Woolly Rhinos, and ancient horses (she forgot the name, Dinohippus.) After the last one, we started singing (with her laughing) "Alice the Camel." Evalyn was singing the last line pretty loud on her own, "So ride, Alice, ride." The last verse went as follows...
Me: "Alice the camel has...no humps. Alice the camel has...no humps. Alice the camel has...no humps; so, Alice is a....(pause)"
E: "Western Camel that lived in North America until it migrated to the Mideast where it developed humps and evolved into the camel that we know today."
THAT is a lot better than, "horse."
Perfection.
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