Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Momma has been cleaning up our toys and putting them all in a box so we can rummage through them and pull them out again! The fun thing about that is that we find toys we forgot about!
I found a super-terrific toy, and I played with it and played with it.
Then I lost it, and I couldn’t find it anywhere. Momma found it for me, though.
P.S. My sister, Chickie, doesn’t have two different-colored eyes. That’s just a trick she does with the light. She thinks it’s really cool. Actually, it is pretty cool.
A WRITING PROMPT FOR ANIMALS: Do you ever steal toys?
TA
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
November 7, 2020 at 2:07pmSame thing with little kids: a toy’s value in the eyes of one kid depends on the amount of attention the other kid gives it. The minute kid number 1 is bored, so is kid number 2.
Ah, the sad ways of the world. Everything we’ve used to survive as a race is still in each little new brain, and has to be worked out for modern times (if that’s where the kid lives). All over again.
Marian Allen
November 8, 2020 at 8:09amSo true, Alicia. Each of us has to conquer — or at least learn to work beyond — our own personal lizard brain. Or, you know, not.
Dan Antion
November 7, 2020 at 3:31pmI’m glad it was this kind of losing it π
Marian Allen
November 8, 2020 at 8:10amFor a certain value of “lost”. This isn’t the first toy Chickie has robbed him of. His Kitty Kong comes to mind, which she took AND HID inside a box.
Dan Antion
November 8, 2020 at 8:36amHaha – sly kitty girl.
acflory
November 8, 2020 at 6:38pmYou look very handsome in those photos, Tipper. And yes, sometimes old toys can be like brand new. I do wonder though, how did that toy end up near Chickie’s foot???
Marian Allen
November 9, 2020 at 9:16amTipper says thank you. And nobody has the slightest idea how that toy ended up near Chickie’s foot. It’s an unsolved mystery.
acflory
November 9, 2020 at 7:16pmI guess we’ll just have to accept it, like the case of the disappearing socks, or ‘why-socks-never-match’. -sigh-
Marian Allen
November 10, 2020 at 10:14amI wish I could remember the name of the comedian and/or writer who claimed that disappearing socks didn’t disappear — they turn into wire clothes hangers.
acflory
November 10, 2020 at 3:00pmLMAO! Not in my house. They disappear too. π
Marian Allen
November 11, 2020 at 9:02amπ