The sunlight pokes its fingers through the blinds as the grandboy tigger-bounces into the bedroom.<\/p>\n
“GWUMPA gwumpa wot you doin? Wot you doing gwumpa?”<\/p>\n
“Sleeping.”<\/p>\n
“WHY?\u00a0 The sun is up time to get up.\u00a0 Wot you doing gwumpa?”<\/p>\n
“Lying in bed, boy, lying in bed.”<\/p>\n
“A LION?!?!?” he misunderstands on purpose, “Quick HIDE hide gwumpa!!” [jumps onto the bed and scrambles under the covers, elbows and knees strategically finding their way in all my soft spots]<\/p>\n
“SHHHHHH” he shushes at the top of his whisper voice.<\/p>\n
Quiet.<\/p>\n
More quiet.<\/p>\n
Then, a little hand pokes out from under the blanket, and i hear a muffled, “wrrunnn”.<\/p>\n
‘What?” I pull up the blanket.<\/p>\n
“I SAAIIIDDD, I need a wrench.”<\/p>\n
“Why do you need a wrench?”\u00a0 and hand him an imaginary wrench.<\/p>\n
“SHHHH.” He scoots back under the blanket.<\/p>\n
Another tiny hand pokes out, and a shouty voice, “SCREWDRIVER!”<\/p>\n
I hand him a screwdriver.<\/p>\n
Again the hand and voice, “ANOTHER KIND OF SCREWDRIVER!”<\/p>\n
I lift the blanket and ask, “Sooo what happened to the lion?”<\/p>\n
“GWUMPA.” pulls the blanket back on himself but not all the way, “You can’t drive away from the lion in a bwoken jeep.\u00a0 I fixing the jeep but be quiet or the lion eat you.”<\/p>\n
And so the day begins \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
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