March 29, 2004
Age of Dinosaurs
Two weeks ago, for Alan's birthday, some well-meaning soul gave us a large package of little plastic dinosaurs.
They're about 3 or 4 cm long. All the usual species are there: brontosaur, stegosaur, raptor, triceratops. They come in a variety of bright colors.
And they are everywhere.
I found one in my shoe this morning, and one under my pillow last night. There's a diplodocus in the bathtub and some sort of carnivore -- an allosaurus, I think -- lurking under the dining room table. There's a small colony of them under the couch. A T-Rex was sitting on top of the TV for a while; it's disappeared for the moment, but I'm pretty sure I saw a duckbill peeping timidly from under the refrigerator.
What makes this odd is that I've never seen Alan playing with the dinosaurs. David puts them in his mouth sometimes, but Alan (at least when I'm around) seems to ignore them.
Yet there they are.
I guess having kids means accepting a little mystery into your life.
Posted by douglas at March 29, 2004 02:15 PMThis is Just A Phase, but in my case it was a phase that lasted until about age ten.
Posted by: Cosma at March 29, 2004 05:01 PM