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Over time, I've been reading the girls the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder as part of our pre-bedtime routine. We alternate with selections by Mr. Kluges like Charlotte's Web, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and 50 Favorite Fairy Tales. We're currently up to Little Town on the Prairie.
Tonight, Penguin and I were talking about the books, and how I'd read and reread the only one of the Little House ones I owned, Little House in the Big Woods. We got to talking about Laura and how excited she'd been to get a rag doll for Christmas.
"Oh," said Penguin, "and in the next book or maybe a different one, remember when they got that... thing for Christmas?!"
"What kind of thing? What did it look like?"
"I forgot the name, but it was round, and they each got one... and the back looks like a radiator!"
"Is this something you play with like a toy? Or maybe something to eat?"
"No, you don't eat it! It's round, and kind of brownish."
Let's see if YOU can guess the mystery Christmas present! Lucky for me, like a bolt out of the blue the answer popped into my head, and then her description made perfect sense. :)
2 comments:
If they forgot the name, you must be paying them a nickel for their thoughts! Inflation!
:) I think you figured it out, Jason, and AKJ answered via Twitter... it was a penny! (I guess the Lincoln Memorial, with its columns, does look a bit like our radiators...)
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