Upstairs, in the boys room, there is a bunk bed. On the top bunk, there is a pillow. Inside this pillow, there lives a colony of mysterious beings. These beings are known as "The Feathers". Sometimes, the Feathers escape from the pillow, float off of Andrew's top bunk, and softly, quietly, trickily land on the floor right next to Calvin's bed!
A few months ago, Calvin ran to me calling urgently, "Mommy, Mommy, you have to come! There is something in my room!" Taking me upstairs he showed me the culprit 10-12 feathers laying on the ground, ranging in color from dark brown, light brown, to white. "What are they he asked?"
I told him they were feathers, which caused him to gasp and say in a breathy, awe-inspired voice, "Feathers….What do they want with me, Mommy?"
I tried to explain that they didn't want anything, they just fell out of Andrew's pillow, and floated down to the ground.
Calvin looked up at Andrew's bed, and then down at the feathers, and then said in a voice no less breathy or awe-inspired, "They FLOATED to me!"
Later after I had gone back downstairs, he comes to me again, "Mommy, the feathers are STILL there! They won't leave Mommy! I don' t mind the light ones but the dark ones look kinda scary! They just stay there waiting, and they won't leave. I don't know what they want but I think want to beat me up. We have to kill the feathers, Mommy." So I just told him to go and tell Diana to kill the feathers. About 15 minutes later, I received a text from Diana saying, "The feathers are dead".
Unfortunately for Calvin, the harassment didn't end there. Apparently Andrew really needs a new pillow because feathers just keep randomly floating down out of his pillow and onto the ground in front of CJ's bed. Leaving him to worry constantly about when the feathers will get him, and wonder, what on earth do the feathers want!
A few weeks back Sherman came by to help us fix our kitchen light. So, Jerrid had ran outside for something, and Sherman was waiting at the dining room table. I went in there and found Calvin standing there going on and on and on telling Sherman all his troubles, "But the feathers weren't dead, because they floated to me again. I don't know what they want? They just keep coming to me. There are light ones and dark ones. I think they might be bugs. But I think they want to hurt me. I think maybe some are nice and some are mean…….." and Calvin just went on and one, telling Sherman all about the feathers. Meanwhile, Sherman just sat there shaking his head and finally answered, "Yeah, feathers'll do that."
We recently read the book "The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree", and Calvin threw me for a loop again. The story went something along these
lines;
Three little bears.
One with a light.
One with stick.
One with a rope.
A spooky old tree.
Do they dare go into the old spooky tree?
(Now at this point Calvin said, "NO!")
Yes, they dare.
….Skipping ahead a little…
A twisty old stair.
Do they dare go up the that twisty old stair?
(Once again Calvin says, "NO!")
Yes, they dare.
Three little bears.
One with light.
One with stick.
And one with the shivers.
("Oh, guess he mustta lost his rope." Calvin says)
….Skipping ahead a little…..
Will the three little bears go through that wall?
Do they dare go into that spooky old hall?
("No! No! Don't do it! There might be ghosts!")
Yes, they dare.
Three little bears.
One with a light.
And two with the shivers.
("She mustta lost her stick, too.")
Giant sleeping bear.
Do they dare go over that bear?
("NO!!!!NONONONONONO! He will EAT you!!!")
…Skipping ahead a little…..
Three little bears.
Without a rope.
Without a stick.
And without a light.
(Now they don't even have a light!!)
I like to talk to Calvin about the books we read and see what he is thinking. It is so cool to find out what is going on in his head. So I asked him, "What do you think they had light for?" He answered reasonably, "So they could see in the dark, spooky tree." When I asked why they had a stick, he said it was because it fell out of a tree. And when I asked why they had a rope, he is said it was for "tying up ghosts."
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