Poppy: Cow is eating.

Rockford: What is cow eating?

P: Cow eating water.

A: Cows eat water? OK.

P: There you go, cow. Orange cow!

A: Orange cow, and a white cow.

Orange Cow: Hello Mr. Cow.

White Cow: Hello Mr. Cow. Hey, would you like to go to the grocery store with me?

OC: Sure, let’s go! What do we need this week?

WC: How ’bout pasta?

OC: OK!

WC: Now we need breakfast cereal. What do we feel like this week? Raisin Bran?

OC: Nah.

WC: Shredded Wheat?

OC: Nah.

WC: Lucky Charms!

OC: Yay!

OC: OK, now back to the farm. See you later, Cow. Bye!

P: Hello, orange cow. Hello, white cow. One more time!

A: You like the Adventures of Cow?

P: One more time!

A: OK.

Orange Cow: Hello, Mr. Cow.

White Cow: Hello, Mr. Cow.

OC: What would you like to do today?

WC: Well, we went to the grocery yesterday, and the day before that we danced. I
was thinking today we could do some puzzles.

OC: I love puzzles!

WC: OK, let’s go do some puzzles. Let’s put them together with our noses.

OC: That was fun. Maybe we should do puzzles again some day.

WC: OK. Bye!

Scene: A small bedroom, recently emptied of its contents. Including one toddler’s crib. Enter exuberant toddler. Toddler stops short, looks around the room in bewilderment.

Poppy: Uh-oh.

Toddler reaches down to pat carpet divots where the crib used to be.

P: Uh-oh.

Mommy, trying to sound chipper and comforting: Your bed is getting ready to move to our new house!

Toddler resumes playing. Crib is all but forgotten.

Lest any of you think the youth of today have no musical taste …

The setting: Uncle Rockford, Aunt Chloe and Aunt Nikki sitting around the breakfast table listening to ’80s music, laughing and reminiscing. Enter stage left, Wilson, 6-year-old nephew and music afficianado. “Something There to Remind Me” by Naked Eyes begins to play…

Uncle Rockford: “Wilson, come ‘ere. Listin to this-what do you think?”

Wilson (after a long pause, eyes fixed in an uncertain gaze upon the computer): “That’s disgusting music.”

(pause as Wilson leaves the room.)

Wilson (said over his shoulder as he walks away): “I’m more in tune with Johnny Cash.”

This fact was confirmed five minutes later when “Jackson” played and Wilson returned to sing along and affirm his allegiance.