Puppet show

Today the girls put on puppet shows for me with their stuffed animals. Imogen went first. She did several very short little skits involving two stuffed animals each, set to a song that was made up on the spot. For example: "Here is a little lamb and he was sad and lonely and the puppy came and played with him and they played all day long and danced. Then the puppy had to go home, but he came back every day to play. The end." Genevieve and I clapped dutifully.

Genevieve's puppet shows were shorter versions of Imogen's with less friendliness and more animals eating each other.

Then Imogen took the stage again, this time to give speeches about each animal holding up a stuffed version of each one. Here they are as best as I can remember. (I came in here as soon as it was over so I could write as much of it down as possible.)

So, animals according to Imogen:

Lions are extremely hungry all the time. They eat meat. They are very scary and mean.

Bears are also extremely hungry. I don't know what they eat but they are also scary. I saw a black one at the zoo.

Monkeys eat only bananas all the time. They climb up in trees.

Bunnies are scared of everything. They run away from dogs and cats and humans. You can have one as a pet only if it's not really extremely scared all the time.

Elephants are really loud. They make all kinds of noise. Well, not really lots of noise. They have this long trunk to get their food and put it in their mouth.

Dogs are good pets. Cows are not good pets so we kill them and eat them. But that's not what this is about. We don't eat dogs. If the dog is a big dog, he could be a hunting dog like in Fox and the Hound. Copper was a little puppy and then he went away and he grew up into a full grown trained huntin' dog. But this dog *holds up stuffed dog* isn't a hunting dog. It's just a regular dog.