A Tale from the Monkey

I bring to you tonight a story made up entirely by the Monkey himself. He often likes to make up stories during bedtime, usually starring himself as the main protagonist. I have to repeat them back to him in their entirety, which can often be difficult given their elaborateness.

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The Monkey and his mommy decided to go to the boat show, which was for guys only. So at the boat show, Mommy had to go to the potty, but she couldn't find anywhere to potty because there were only guy bathrooms. She had to potty in her underwear, and so she had to go home to change and left the Monkey at the boat show.

The Monkey wandered over to the sewer and fell in. Then a clock came by and saw the little boy in the sewer. The clock could walk and talk and tick and tock [I swear he made up this rhyme on his own]. The clock had a claw with a button and a controller. So a hand inside the clock pushed the button and moved the controller and the claw came out of a hole in the clock and reached down into the sewer to pick up the Monkey, then put him inside the clock and carried him over to his mommy. The end.

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That's the story he made up. This gives us a few insights into the mind of the four-year old Monkey.

• He and I are going to do a Guy's Day at the boat show this weekend, and he's pretty excited about it.
• He loves his mommy. A lot.
• He is obsessed with sewers, claws, and clocks.
• He thinks people pottying in their underwear is the funniest thing, which I assume is fairly typical of four-year olds.
• The stories he makes up don't necessarily make a lot of sense from a narrative perspective, but they definitely have visual appeal. I'm going to choose Spielberg to direct the big-screen version of this one.