Flying Barrel Of Monkeys

Since I haven’t been feeling well, MonkeyBoy has been watching more television than is normal in our house. The other day I let him pick out whatever DVD he wanted to watch and he chose “Schoolhouse Rock”. I didn’t know if he’d like it, but he sat mesmerized for the length of the DVD affording me a nice doze in and out on the couch.

A few days later he started asking if he could watch the newspaper show. I had no idea what he was talking about. He kept insisting that there was a show about a newspaper, one “with a face”. I finally figured out he wanted to watch “Schoolhouse Rock” again, in particular, the “I’m Just a Bill” sketch.

It’s been a few more days since he’s watched the DVD, but he’s still talking about it. Tonight he was stalling going to bed and telling stories. He broke into a little dance back and forth and blurted out, “I’ll do this when I die” and then he fell to the floor. We’ve never really discussed death with MonkeyBoy and this comment disturbed us. We exchanged raised eyebrows and asked MonkeyBoy to tell us where he learned about that. His response, “from the newspaper!” We still didn’t understand and asked him to tell us again and he said “From the newspaper. The one with the face.” Oh, yes, in the “I’m Just a Bill” sketch the Bill (the “newspaper with a face” in our world) does do a little dance and sings about how he will die if he doesn’t get passed in committee. Our little guy sure is impressionable and has a great memory!