gor[b] Paul Gorbould: Words and Pictures

The Sleeping Chick

It's been four CBC-related posts in a row, so I thought I'd abdicate responsibility and post something completely different. The following is the first story my eldest daughter (now five) told me. It's from December 2003 - she had just turned two.

The story was told in the bathtub, using a set of foam farm animal bath stickers.

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The Sleeping Chick

Once upon a time there was a sleeping chick. The mother hen said, "Oh, my chick is sleeping."

A cow came and said "Moo."

"Shhh," said the mother, "my chick is sleeping."

Then a pig came along and said "Oink."

"Shhh," said the mother, "my chick is sleeping."

Along came a tractor and said "Rrrrrr."

"Oh, you are too noisy," said the hen.

The hen went on the tractor to get some hay. "Wake up!" said the hen, and the chick woke up and ate the hay.

"Blah," said the chick. "I eat corn." The chick went back to sleep.

"My chick sleeps a lot!" said the hen.

THE END.

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The best use I've found for a PalmPilot is to keep it lying around for jotting down funny kid stuff (stories, first words, names for stuffed animals, etc.) Then you can dredge them up years later and recall the stuff you've forgotten. By the way, the bath animals had the following names, usually the result of me suggesting something and her rejecting them until one struck her fancy: Yuckie (pig), Moo Unit (cow), Morris (cat), Hidalgo (horse), Cluckers (hen), Mutton (sheep). Few things made me giggle so much as a two-year-old talking about "Moo Unit".