james and eeyore

when children ask me to tell them a story i usually make them tell me a story. i will say something like 'once there was a boy and his name was what?' kind of like a madlib story time. so i was doing this yesterday with baby james.this is baby james. he isn't actually a baby. he turned 3 in september.

quick back story. i have a "white board" in my room... it's actually a picture frame and i put a piece of poster board in so i can pretend i have a large white board. so james asked me to draw some monsters yesterday and to make them scary. here is what i came up with.
i thought the idea of a monster with a comb over was pretty funny. i don't think he agreed. after that he asked me to draw only happy monsters with funny teeth. i guess i'm a little too good at drawing scary monsters.

anyway, i was having him tell me a story last night and i was impressed with the story he came up with. at first we were playing fill in the blank story but after a little bit he was just telling me the story. i will now share it with you. i suggest not reading this in the dark or when you are home alone. here is my paraphrased version of what he told me:

there once was a boy named eeyore. eeyore's favorite thing to do when we woke up in the morning was to ride his bike. so eeyore goes out riding his bike and he meets some monsters. he is really scared and doesn't know what to do and then he scares the monsters by saying ROOOOOAAAARR! and the montsters run off.

eeyore goes home and his mom is glad he is back and she gives him a present. he opens the present and it's crayons and so he starts drawing a picture. he draws the monster from earlier and when he finishes it comes to life and comes through the paper and eats his mom! and then the monster eats eeyore. then eeyore busts out through the monster's stomach. eeyore gets his friends together and they fight off the monsters and the monsters say 'i'm sorry' and leave. the end.

i don't know about you but the idea of a drawing of a monster coming to life and coming out of the page to eat you is pretty stinking scary to me. i also like how just when you think eeyore is safe it all starts again. good ones, james! anyway, i'm pretty sure he thought my drawing was going to murder him... so that's awesome.