From about this time last year…
A bright spring morning and Jacqui greeted me with even more than her usual enthusiasm…
“Mom! I finded somethin’ when I was playin’ in da backyard yesti-day!”
“Oh, really? What did you find?”
“A crista-list!!”
“A what?”
“I said, Uh…CRIS…DA…LIST!! It’s kinda like another name for a kuhtoon, Mom.”
“Oh, You mean a chrysalis? A cocoon?”
“Dat’s wat I said. You needta pay datenshun wen peeple’s talkin’, Mommy.”
“I was paying attention. How do you know what a chrysalis is?”
“Oh, Mom. Most evvybuddy knows dat.”
“Huh. Interesting… ”
“Yes, dat’s wat I say - ‘innerestin!’ Soooo… I peeked in it!”
“You what?”
“Mooooooommm! You needta lissen! I said, I…PEEKED… IN…SIDE…DA…CRIS….DA…LIST!!”
“You did? What was inside?”
Her shoulders drooped and she shrugged in disappointment, “Dere was no budderfly innit.”
“There wasn’t?”
“Nope. I looked and I looked, and I think-ded, ‘Where’s da budderfly?’ I think-ded like dis ‘THINK, THINK, THINK’ like Pooh does (tapping her forehead), but I jess didn’t find her ennywhere. She’s jess missin’ I guess.”
“Was there a caterpillar inside?”
“Nope. Just green squishy stuff.”
“Oh dear.”
“Wat you mean when you say dat, ‘Oh dear?’ ”
“I think the green squishy stuff is your caterpillar. That is, it was your caterpillar before you peeked inside.”
“WHAT??? Who squished my caterpillar Mom?!!?”
My little future entomologist…
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