Monday, July 23, 2007

Blee and Blo

Avery has this imagination....its nuts...we play with pretend animals in the car - her feet play with each other...but sometimes they don't share and need to stop being fresh...

One of her favorite things is to change the names of the characters in her books when we read before bedtime...it started with the Clifford books - "Emily Elizabeth will be Blee and Clifford will be Blo"

So through the entire book, the reader is required to substitute Blee and Blo for Emily Elizabeth and Clifford...which is pretty strait forward because "Emily Elizabeth" only appears on the first page of the book - so all you have to remember is Clifford=Blo...

Well...its expanded...to the Curious George books...and let me tell you - "The Man in the Yellow Hat" is in those books just as much as "George" and SHE remembers more than I do..and corrects me every time i mess up..."No dad, The Man In The Yellow Hat is BLEE"

She's even gone so far as to DISCUSS what they are doing in the picture using their substituted names...

I love it.