Opening the monsters. Millie was so disappointed when she realized I hadn't really made palm trees. "But you said you would sew on coconuts and flowers..." she said, her eyes welling up with tears. I deservedly felt like a cad for playing a charade and later apologized to her. John showed her all sorts of monster tricks, and she realized that though they pale in comparison to stuffed palm trees, stuffed monsters aren't all bad.
I know that you felt bad, but it is also funny. It is so perfectly childlike to have been laying awake at night imaginging the splendor of the palm trees, so perfect and ultimate in her mind, that these AWESOME (they really are) monsters could fall short. Palm trees!
ReplyDeleteI love the monsters.
I'm still thinking about sewing a palm tree, though, with coconuts and flowers.
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