You'll be the big cheese on that orbiting rondel.
Genevieve has developed a charming obsession with the moon. Or "mooooOOOOoooo," as she calls it, which is different from "mmmmmOOOO" (that's what a cow says) and "mmmOH", which is her version of the sacred syllable om.
Usually three to five times per evening, she'll get a wild look in her eyes and point out the window. "MooooOOOOoooo!" she'll say. Then we go out into the evening and look around for the moon. It's disconcerting when we can't find it because it hasn't risen yet. Tonight's payoff was worth the wait: a smoldering coin of pumpkin and brown sugar simmering above the Sierra Nevada. OoooOOOOoooo. I'm a little nervous about two weeks from now, when the new moon comes around. I'm not sure that I'll be able to explain its apparent absence to her satisfaction.
Entries in Genevieve's lexicon:
• what a cow says
• what a cat, dog, fish, horse, goat, pig, mouse, hippopotamus and lizard say
• what a car says
• moon
• down
• maMAmAAMAmAMmamamMAMAMA
• off
• no
• noNOnoNOnoNOnoNONONONONO
• yeah
• sign language for "more", "all done" and "light"
• boobah (what mama's got that papa will never have)
• yummyyummy
Usually three to five times per evening, she'll get a wild look in her eyes and point out the window. "MooooOOOOoooo!" she'll say. Then we go out into the evening and look around for the moon. It's disconcerting when we can't find it because it hasn't risen yet. Tonight's payoff was worth the wait: a smoldering coin of pumpkin and brown sugar simmering above the Sierra Nevada. OoooOOOOoooo. I'm a little nervous about two weeks from now, when the new moon comes around. I'm not sure that I'll be able to explain its apparent absence to her satisfaction.
Entries in Genevieve's lexicon:
• what a cow says
• what a cat, dog, fish, horse, goat, pig, mouse, hippopotamus and lizard say
• what a car says
• moon
• down
• maMAmAAMAmAMmamamMAMAMA
• off
• no
• noNOnoNOnoNOnoNONONONONO
• yeah
• sign language for "more", "all done" and "light"
• boobah (what mama's got that papa will never have)
• yummyyummy
hurled forth by Felix Helix | 6:35 PM
2 Comments:
A hippopotamus says "WHGHGHAAAAGHGHHH!!!" because in one of Genevieve's books there is a picture of a hippopotamus with its mouth wide open, epiglottis a-danglin'.
Here's the straight dope: "hippos" is horse and "potamos" is river (i.e. Mesopotamia, between rivers), so a hippopotamus is a river horse. "Campus", when it's not referring to a site of drunken twentysomething debauchery, comes from the Greek for sea monster; thus, a hippocampus is a half-horse, half-dolphin creature. Or, alternately and interestingly, a ridge along the lower section of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
Of course? Of course.
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