The other day I was reading Matthew's Dream by Leo Lionni to The Mayor before his nap.
During the story the main character (Matthew) meets his future wife, a mouse named Nicoletta.
When Nicoletta was introduced, The Mayor interrupted me to say,
"Mom! I had a dream about Nicoletta!"
"You did?"
"I did!" he said. "And in the dream..."
[The Mayor cupped his arms in front of his chest as if he were carrying two watermelons.]
"...in the dream she had these huge fire trucks!!"
The Joys.
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LOL! And, as always, nice art!
Huge fire trucks! awesome.
Huge fire trucks???? Boys and their toys!
That Mayor, he's pretty precocious, isn't he?
We lovelovelovelovelove Leo Lionni around here.
Love Leo Lionni - the froggy one gets our vote. Have a good trip.
Cheers
Like a derelict pirate of children's literacy, I swooped in upon ye vessel and I added Matthew's Dream to my library list.
Arrrg
Philly? Have fun in the city I'm enburberated to
enburberated - n. meaning or have to pertaining to being the closest city to where your happy ass lives.
My son frequently has dreams involving trucks, too.
Hm, we haven't read Matthew's Dream yet. Guess we will have to check it out. I'll let you know if we incur any strange dreams on our end. :)
Philadephia will never be the same.
You are the QUEEN of photoshop, baby!
A Park Ranger? In Philly? I'm just an ignorant Canadian but I'm guessing you'll want to go a little further off the beaten track, no? Those are the kind of assumptions we get about OUR cities.
Wow, I didn't know Leo Lionni had written so many books. I have Frederick The Mouse from when I was a kid. I loved the illustrations.
Huge fire trucks. there's a euphemism if ever I heard one.
fire trucks and dana. this kid has naming privates down to an art form.
philly is only an hour on the train from nyc... just sayin'.
Dude, I will have to exhange some snack recipes with you - I have stand-ins for the carrots, I promise!
I wish I could express surprise at the Mayor's comments, but I just can't.
Have fun on your kid-free trip - I am sure you will.
The Mayor's Dream?
Did you know Philadelphia has a place called Free Love Park? Might be a place to look....
Do I want to know what comes out of the firehoses?
OMG and I'm LMAO!!!
I've never heard them called THAT before! lol
Two of men's favorite things...big trucks and breasts. The Mayor is a man's man for sure. *lol*
Hys-terical!
We love Leo Lionni!!!!
You know, philly isn't all THAT far from NY!!!
I'm going to have to start using "huge fire trucks", maybe I won't get slapped so much.
Fire trucks! Now I've heard them all.
I'm warning our mayor to put our city on lock down. Oh wait, he's too busy in line for a new iPhone...
Come up to Valley Forge park, you'll definatly find your park ranger there.
I'm stealing furiousballs line too..
I'm enburberated also.
I love it! Now I can refer to "them" in public and no one will know what I'm talking about!
Huge fire trucks?
That's BRILLIANT. I'm so stealing that one.
uh oh. My son like fire trucks....A LOT.
I love when kids start to remember dreams. Brenna has just started that. So cute and FUNNY!
I hope your dream comes true and you get yourself a ranger uniform to dress up K. Don't they just rent those things out???
Have a wonderful trip to Philadelphia! I'm sure those cheesesteak sandwiches will help the might wind along nicely!
I love that book, good choice!
Carrie
Firetrucks! I love it and I too am stealing that one.
Have fun on your search for those men in uniform...
Hey! I'm.. whatthehellwasthatword?? Enburberated also!
We'll be at Chuck3Cheese in Springfield tonight if you wanna stop over.
Luckily Philly has many smelly smokestacks - there's a chance we may never notice you've arrived.
I would have to guess that Matthew has a very long hose.
Park Rangers at the Liberty Bell. Also you could probably flirt with the people dressed as Thom. Jefferson and Ben Franklin
Have fun in Philly - I used to live there! Do some shopping on Belmont for me, would you?
Have fun on your trip!
Wherer does one find a bra large enough to accomodate fire trucks, I wonder?
Um...how does she keep those fire trucks so perky? Is there a non-surgical method I should know about?
If a little mouse has big ol' firetrucks, what do we have?
Have a great trip!
Big firetrucks? So is that what we're calling them now?
LOL, great story! Have fun in Philly!
Yeah, that's why my husband married me, my huge firetrucks.
Hi, I found you through the fab CamiKaos.
I only just discovered Leo Lionni through Susan as Herself and read Frederick to my two little monkeys last night.
It's such a cute story.
I'll have to buy them 'Matthew's Dream', Miss M aged 2 loves Fire Engines at the moment...
Ok, I know, it was just a dream, but very funny.
Men and their fire trucks...the bigger the better.
Have a great time in Philly. Never left hubby with all 3 kids. REALLY want to.
fire trucks? that's what they're calling them these days?
Fire trucks?!
What starts with "F" and ends in "UCK"? Fire truck! Yay! What? Oh, get yer mind outta the gutter.
Parenting alone? Brrr. Scary.
Honestly I must start wearing depends before reading your blog!
Dude, huge fire trucks!?!?! He is so going to be a hit with the ladies. *Turning her sirens on* ;)
Our sons must be on the same wavelength this week. Thank goodness I'm just schlepping around "2 big mushy rocks in my chest" ...
Rock on! Have a great time on your trip. Just think, 4 days of pooping by yourself!
At least he didn't say, "fire f*cks" as my child would have. Can't get her to pronouce "tr" right for the life of me. They are tr-tr-tr-trucks, honey!
P.S. YO!! I LIKE LIVE IN PHILLY!!!
I know some great cafes...hint hint.
(sorry, no park rangers in my cicle of friends)
*snort*
I don't even want to know about their hoses.
Well, there's a euphamism I've never heard before...
Have fun in Philly!
I totally snorted at the firetrucks.
that testosterone really kicks in early, doesn't it?
Love it!!!!
Nothing like a great set of fire trucks. My 8 year old is fascinated by them every time he sees a big pair.
LMAO....
J.
You are rais'n em up right!
Fire trucks? If only mine were large enough to merit such a comparison, but as it is since I started breastfeeding the baby my daughter just calls mine "holes". Ouch.
Hub-a-hub-a, Nicoletta!
The Mayor naps?? Was that in the book you recco'd too?
Have fun in Philly!
Is that what they're calling them these days?
Just as an update, I read the girls "Matthew's Dream" at the library yesterday. No dreams yet... of fire trucks or peanuts or anything else. :)
I know I'm cute and all but seriously, stop stalking me.
Oh wait. Maybe I'm stalking you.
If you need a break, or a good laugh, you're welcome to stop over and meet my in-laws.
cuz the world needs more euphemisms for body parts.
rangers in philly?
why haven't you just checked out a costume store? do you need the authentic sweat of a ranger in the uniform first? in all it's foresty goodness.
Fire trucks? Where did that come from? ;-)
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