MOOSIC & MOOS

The Little Tikes Cozy Coup came all the way down the hall and into the kitchen where Miss Lilly stopped to stack dice to make a castle and where Amici Defined was playing on the CD player, music in the background.  Without making eye contact because Miss Lilly was so intent on building, she curiously said, "Thank you fur da moosic."

Seriously?  I still contemplate that.  The group Amici Forever smacks of the classics, and this little one was thankful?

From there we did not neatly segue into, "Let's go play Yucky Ducks!"  Lucky Ducks is a quacking game where little plastic yellow ducks go round and round in a pretend pond.  When you pick one, it's colored circle on its bottom determines it's placement. 

Would you believe after 20 years that toy has never had it's batteries changed?  
On Sunday, Jay and Miss Lilly took turns picking ducks but, this day with me she wouldn't take turns.  She had to keep choosing until she got her all her ducks, blonde hair giving way, arms up high in victory sign, "I win!"  

Chuckle.

Then she dived into the couch cushions, fully swallowed by their fluff and stuff.  When I peeked over she had Sami, the Ty baby fish, swishing its tail and Neptune, the seahorse she called Shark, chasing after it.   "Fishy hiding from the shark!"  Swish, swish.  "I have to hide wiff him."

With the unicorn Ty baby she pushed its horn down with her toddler finger and said, "Now, he's a horse."

But later, while I had my back to her, letting her play quietly alone, she came running down the hall, grabbed me around the waist, totally upset, "Scary mo!"

"What?"  I asked.  "Monster?  There's no monsters in GrammyPam's house."

She insisted, "Scary mo!"  Holding her close with my left hand I got up and said, "Show me.  I don't have monsters, but you show me what you saw."

Walking back down the hall she whispered something about having red eyes.

Stepping into the room she pivots to point to the shelf level with her eyes.  Sitting there, staring right at her, were two creatures with red eyes.  They were black.  They had horns.  They were fierce.  They were Fisher Price play animals.  And, they were bulls.

Swipe brow, "Phew."
Those are definitely some "Scary moos!"