Bedtime Stories

Joshua gets most of his bedtime stories after the lights are out, which means I have to make them up. I am NOT a natural story teller, and it's been hard to find ideas, so I posted on the singles board of Beliefnet.com and got lots of great ideas for coming up with story ideas, one of which I used last night:

Last night's Happy Story was about Bilbo the Squirrel. He lived in a tree right outside Auntie Faye's kitchen window and she was doing the dishes and watching him one day. Auntie Faye's kitty cat was sleeping under the tree, and Bilbo grabbed a nut and threw it at him.

And of course there were appropriate sound affects and a corresponding plop on Joshua's head at the moment of impact.

And the kitty woke up (VERY theatrically) and said "WHAT WAS THAT???". And Bilbo laughed and laughed and laughed.

The poor kitty went back to sleep several times and got wacked on the head several times with all the physical head thunking and sound affects at the appropriate times.

Eventually the kitty got up, mortally offended, never did figure out what had happened, and he stalked up to the kitchen door, dignity in shreds, and said "I meant to do that" and asked to be let in.

The nice thing about this story is that Joshua LAUGHED HIS ASS OFF every time the cat got hit in the head with a nut and Bilbo would start laughing. He LOVED this story.

I felt very successful FINALLY.