Yesterday afternoon Larry and Dawn came for a visit. Connor was fascinated with them both, but followed Larry around like a puppy. Larry loves kids and was more than happy to push Connor in the swing and throw him up into the air, but the thing that made Connor decide that Larry was his new bestest friend, (who just happens to have a driver’s license) was this… Larry does a perfect Elmo impersonation.
When it was time for bed, we thought it would be fun to have Larry read Connor a Dr. Seuss book because we knew that we could count on Larry to use all of his cartoon voices. We thought that Connor would be impressed by this and he might have been if he wouldn’t have been so excited that LARRY! was actually in his ROOM! reading to HIM!, that he ran around the room and started rooting through his closet, trying to find something to impress Larry with. When Jorma came in Connor had pulled about 10 books out of his closet, found his ceramic baby shoe piggy bank and was wearing mittens. So much for story time. Larry kept on like a pro, the same way you would if you were in a band and a bar fight broke out while you were playing.
After the kids went to bed and we had a couple of glasses of wine, we too had some laughs at Larry’s Elmo impressions, although there is nothing that I could repeat here for fear of being sued by
This morning when I was bringing Connor downstairs, he looked at me hopefully, “Larry and Dawn are downstairs?” he asked. I explained to him that Larry and Dawn had to go home and that they weren’t here. He looked at me with disappointment and then asked again hopefully, as if I would be able to produce them like new toys from the playroom closet.
Today Elmo is his favorite toy.
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