Hot Fire

Ken should really be writing this. But he won't.

Before bed most nights Nora and Ken read Goodnight Moon. For those of you who know the book well, you can picture the green room with the fireplace in the background. Nora has apparently taken to this fire and wished the author had included it in the list of inanimate objects that the bunny says goodnight to before bed.

Nora, as Ken reports, sucks her thumb like Maggie from the Simpsons sucks her pacifier, as he reads, but each time he turns the page she removes the thumb long enough to point and say, "hot fire!" Then she replaces her thumb and waits for the fire to reappear on the next page so she can repeat her pointing and stating "hot fire!"

Tonight Nora was asking for me to put her to sleep (which I don't do because it takes 40 minutes) and she was crying after I left her with Ken in the rocker. He started reading Goodnight Moon and she kept crying. That is, until he pointed to the hot fire. She repeated and pointed. And apparently at the end of the book she said, "night night hot fire."

Too funny.