Call & Response

The Call: This is How It’s Done — Cheryl

I must have had Henry in mind when I chose today’s Call. We sometimes refer to him as the Hengineer, because he never stops creating or thinking about creating. This afternoon, he demonstrated the new game he invented (another one!), in which players try to get a football into a small soccer net and/or kick goals over the net. His brother Sam was not around to play defender, but I got the gist of things.

The Response: Monkey Got a Bucket and I Don’t Know Why — Jessica

I’m not feeling very inventive today. It was rainy and grey all day, the light around here was pretty wretched. So, I’ll tell you a little story about this big monkey and my inventive (or really imaginative) second son.

It was many years ago, while we were visiting my parents in Houston, that we came across this big monkey at their local Zany Brainy. The then two-year old was in love with monkeys and ran to the display and grabbed the big monkey. I left him with my mother while I went to look at puzzles with my oldest son. When I returned, the two-year old had taken two smiliar (but much smaller) monkeys and laying the big monkey on the floor, had put each of the smaller “baby” monkeys at just the right position to be nursing.

When I pointed that out to my mother, she thought it was the funniest, most inventive thing she had ever seen. Thanks to Grandma, Nicholas left the store with two out of the three monkeys.