Thursday, May 14, 2009

Tall Tale



The 4 year old GRAND~girl's teacher

quit the first day of May.

(She was a great teacher, the kids miss her.)


Instead of hiring a new teacher for

the last 4 weeks of school they've

asked one of their part time teachers

to step in and help.


Mrs Dottie who is the 2 year old's

teacher on Tuesdays and Thursdays is

now teaching the 4 year old M-W-F.


I pick the girls up on Tuesday

and Mrs Dottie and Mrs Audrey

ask me if Harrison has a pet snake.


I say "no." and they are a little

shocked. "He doesn't have a snake

about this long?"

holding out their hands about

2 feet apart.

Um "No".

They look at each other and just

start laughing. So they proceed to

tell me that as they discussed pets

in class the day before, the 4 year

old told them that her daddy had a

pet snake. The snakes name was

"Chandler." When Harrison goes

hunting in the woods he catches

small white rats to feed the snake.


Now the child has a great imagination.


And apparently she is a very

good story teller, because both of

these silly teachers believed her story.


I had the 4 year old yesterday

afternoon.

I ask her about her daddy's

pet snake, Chandler.


Walking away from me, over her

shoulder she doesn't skip a beat

she says, " oh, he died!"


End of a 4 year olds story.

14 comments:

Sandman said...

Hilarious! I love 4 year old imaginations!

Midlife, menopause, mistakes and random stuff... said...

Well of course he died!!! Sad really.........did she have a proper funeral for Chandler?
Girl, my daughter once told her teacher that I had locked her in a closet with a rat!!!
I hope her kid does the same crappola to her, lol!!

Steady On
Reggie Girl

Kristina P. said...

I was so waiting for daddy's pet snake to be something else, if you catch my drift. I wondered if perhaps he had overheard a private conversation!

Jan said...

Oh no. How funny. I love the 4 year olds carefreeness. Is that a word?

Anonymous said...

Now that is FUNNY!!!! Thanks for sharing, I needed a laugh to get my day started.
Love you,
papa

Katherine Roberts Aucoin said...

Oh how funny! Thant made me laugh so much. Just wait..she will come up with better stories as she gets more experienced.

jennifer rogers said...

that is a classic! What a funny little thing she is! She's very smart to come up with that whole story on her own!

aurbie said...

That is a cute story. I remember Art Linkletter had an old show that took advantage of the cute things kid say. I think someone tried to copy it once, but no one did it like Linkletter.

And kids always know how to close a story, don't they? Loved the part about the snake dying.

My son's girlfriend went into her son's bedroom late one night and caught him sitting up in bed eating potato chips. He told her he was not eating potato chips, and assured her that she was only dreaming that he was eating potato chips.

Aramie Judd Christopherson said...

That is the best story ever! I think that kids are the funniest between 3-5. I miss those stories! I

Anonymous said...

oh that child is a wreck. What are we going to with her!

Devri said...

rofl.. I would love to get our tykes together!!! I am with Kristinas comment.

hugs

Anonymous said...

That story is just to cute.

Welcome to the Garden of Egan said...

I LOVE IT! Kids are the best thing.... when they are little.

I can hardly wait to keep reading more adventures of her. I can only imagine what stories she'll pop up with when she's 13...

Thanks for the post, it made me smile.

Anonymous said...

Shelby, remember is the one that said she had her own song. Asked what was it and she said, "Shelby coming around the mountain when she comes."





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