Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The breakfast story club

Whatever her feelings about dinner, Edith is a fan of breakfast. It is thus one of the few times when we can catch her sitting still long enough to record some of the stories she's always telling. Here's a snip from this morning.

Apologies for the poor sound in the first minute or so--it was an adventure story, loosely based on a picture book about a tiger named Stripe, and Edith's suspenseful voice dropped pretty low.
I always hate those movies with poor sound editing, and here I am propagating one. Maybe Uncle Peter can teach me how to edit it to make improvements. In the meantime, as background: The plot involves a tiger running out of the jungle where he lived, which was dangerous, cool and dark, and falling, falling into the water, where he swims with the fish, until he sees two eyes and a crocodile bursts upon him and tries to catch him, but he swims far away and has an idea, when he sees a cave, that that seems like a good place to hide. From there, I think you'll be able to pick it up.


3 comments:

larheel said...

I love that God put Jonah in "time out." Beautiful interpretation.

And as you well know, you've got quite the storyteller there!

jennifer said...

Wow!! You always say in your blogs what a good storyteller she is and how verbal she is...and boy, you are right!! I thought Kennan talked a lot and had a large vocabuary, but I think Edith has him beat!! Thanks for sharing!

Hobokener said...

super cute. I bet that Edith can name more ancient Mesopotamian cities than most Americans! I also love the "time out" line.