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March 04, 2005
The Otter Show
All week long, Rob has promised Miranda he was taking her to the Auto Show on Friday. She was quite excited. We chalked this up to doing something fun with Papa. (Well, Rob assumed a love of cars was hereditary and I assumed a dislike of auto shows was hereditary or should be.)
This morning on the ride to school I asked Miranda where she was going this afternoon. She said, "The auto show."
I asked, "What is an auto?"
She mumbled something that sounded like "auto auto."
I said an auto is a car, or a truck or a van. An "automobile."
Miranda said, "seals swim in the water" and giggled. It was like I was saying the silliest thing ever.
"Not a seal, an automobile. Not an automoseal," I said.
She was nonplussed.
When she arrived at the Auto Show this afternoon, in front of hundreds of vehicles, Miranda asked, "where are the autos?"
Rob said there were autos all around her.
"No, otters swim in the water," and she ran in circles around Rob pretending to swim.
Maybe a dislike of auto shows is hereditary. And wouldn't you like to attend an otter show?
Posted by sarah at March 4, 2005 09:58 PM