http://edlamaze.com Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:04:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://edlamaze.com/2009/11/25/but-stuffed-pandas-thats-a-whole-different-thing.aspx http://edlamaze.com/2009/11/25/but-stuffed-pandas-thats-a-whole-different-thing.aspx#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:08:38 +0000 Ed http://edlamaze.com/?p=941 http://edlamaze.com/2009/11/25/but-stuffed-pandas-thats-a-whole-different-thing.aspx/feed 4 http://edlamaze.com/2008/08/16/whats-in-a-name.aspx http://edlamaze.com/2008/08/16/whats-in-a-name.aspx#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:01:00 +0000 Ed http://edlamaze.com/2008/08/whats-in-a-name/ There must be close to a hundred of them.  Big ones.  Small ones.  Furry ones.  Shaggy ones.  Smooth ones.  Hard ones.  Soft ones.  Some have missing arms, others legs.  Some are just a head.  Others are beyond all recognition.

There are girls, boys, bears, rabbits, cats, dogs, fish, dinosaurs, tigers, lions, pigs, penguins, and walruses.  We've got stuffed animals in just about every room of the house.  Pandemic proportions.  And with very few exceptions, every stuffed dog, cat, bear and whatnot has a name.  Mike, Ruby, Ariel, Emily, Cochon, Ella....  They all do.

My wife is perplexed as to how the kids can come up with so many creative, sometimes bizarre, names for these ridiculous stuffed toys and yet can not choose a better name for the cat.

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This week's Sonnet addresses the ever dwindling rodent population around Casa de Ed.  For discussion purposes let's just assume that rabbits are rodents, OK?  I'm a dad not a zoologist.  Though zoo keeper would not be too far from an apt job description.


RODENTS BEWARE

 Rodents, beware.
Though extremely cute and cuddly, your safety
Can not be assured in this place.

Yesterday's offering
By our feline warriors was a most  
Adorable (and assuredly dead) bunny.

The kids cringed
With horror and repulsion at the feasting
Yet would not look away.

Then Rusty
Availed himself
To the spoils.

And the feline feast was done.

Note to self:  Get cat food!








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Let the games begin!

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