shark attack

David and Dennis spent some serious time playing together this morning, Dennis appeared in our room with a sword and told David "I will be the pirate and you be the shark". What followed was a boisterous half hour of David chasing him up and down the hallway and around the house yelling "chomp chomp chomp" while Dennis ran from him and screamed and occasionally fought back with the sword. As it turns out, Dennis is a champion screamer. Some were the laugh-screams, the kind where he's laughing so hard that the laugh comes out as a kind of scream. Some were pretend screams, and some were actual screams of real fright that were followed by fits of giggles. Daddy makes a good shark, and Dennis enjoys the adrenaline rush of being just a little afraid when Daddy's growls and chomps are too realistic. I enjoyed the whole show, loud as it was!

I wasn't feeling well tonight, and Dennis told me he'd sing a song to make me feel better, and he went off to fetch his guitar. He returned strumming it and singing "sick, sick, sick...when you feel sick you get a cough and you go to the doctor's office and they give you a shot and it hurts really bad" then paused for a breath and continued with "but the shot keeps you from getting sicker and then you get a sticker" and then he added a chorus of the full alphabet song for good measure. He's right. It did make me feel better.