This morning Eben found a caterpillar and named him, appropriately, "Caterpillar" (following his sister in the Castleman tradition of creative naming such as "Dog-Dog", "Giraffe" and "Lamby"). We made a little home for him in a jelly jar. Eben asked me if caterpillars had hearts and then said he was asking because he wondered if the caterpillar loved him. Awww!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
My friend, "Caterpillar"
Posted by Castleman Family at 11:49 AM
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The funny thing is that I was the one who most often named animals like my favorite (RIP) "Doggy" and stuff like that. Even my creative names were stuff like "Flamey" (dragon) and "Woody" (raccoon). Scott named a dog of his "Tuffus and Buffus," and a buffalo "Black Thunder." So then I turn out to be the artist, and he becomes the pastor. It's an unpredictable world.
The funny thing is that I was the one who most often named animals like my favorite (RIP) "Doggy" and stuff like that. Even my creative names were stuff like "Flamey" (dragon) and "Woody" (raccoon). Scott named a dog of his "Tuffus and Buffus," and a buffalo "Black Thunder." So then I turn out to be the artist, and he becomes the pastor. It's an unpredictable world.
Yeah, they get that me. I can't remember too many stuffed animals that I had but I know one was creatively named "St. Louis Bear" because my dad had bought it in, guess where? St Louis! My sis had a well-loved stuffed dog named "Blacky" and it was ... get this, black!
Christina G. Rossetti's poem "The Caterpillar" is cute. Eben might like it. Judah learned it as part of our grammar work, but he also enjoys acting it out.
Hopefully Eben will get two pets out of this one and we'll get to see what the transformation results in!
Take care.
Shannon
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