Monday, June 02, 2008

A Whale of a Tale

I was up early this morning to greet Troy and put his brother on the school bus in front of our house. (Tyler usually gets on at home before their dad drops Troy off here.) On days when I have to be up an hour early, I have a tendency to wake up two or three hours early instead and only half-sleep my final hours in bed. Rather than walk around feeling sleepy for the morning, I decided to take Troy out grocery shopping so we went to Webster. Between the road and parking lot in front of Wegmans are two ponds and today the fountains were on. "I bet its a whale!" Troy gasped. He was sure the spouting water was coming from the blowhole of a giant fish. I had to smile. Only a three year old could imagine a whale in such a small body of water. Not wanting to make him feel silly, I played along. Why not? It sounded like a fun game and reminded me of an old Dr. Seuss book, McElligot's Pool. Maybe some day we should get a couple of fishing poles and see what we can catch in one of those little ponds...

7 comments:

  1. What a darling story. Remember Art Linkletter, and kids say the darnest things.... a book could be written on these great words from the mouth of babes.

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  2. That is adorable! That is such an exciting way to look at things:)

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  3. There's a "pond" in front of a Wegmans near here, with two "whales" in it...it looks so alluring, but being downhill from the parking lot, mom knows how dirty it probably is...but the kids always remark how fun it would be to take a swim in...oh, to be young and uninformed...

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  4. I want to go!! I miss you. I will up date soon.

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  5. I think that is a very happy idea to think that a whale might be down there blowing his spout of water. Cute.

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