Saturday, January 17, 2009

Wired

I cant prove it, but I suspect my son has an espresso machine hidden somewhere. My guess is that one of his little wooden trains is a tiny coffee maker. So when I hear his train set going "Puff Puff Wooooo Wooooo" its really just percolating.
I imagine it goes a little something like this:
(Mission Impossible music playing)
4 year old wakes up and sits up in bed, throws his covers off and tip toes to his door. He looks down the hallway and listens. All is quiet. He tip toes back to his bed and opens up his favorite stuffed ducky. (this is why he sleeps with it. It must be close at all times.) He reveals a secret pouch in the ducks belly and produces a small baggie of coffee beans. He closes his eyes and takes a big whiff. Next he goes over to his train set, pours the beans into the smoke stack of a yellow train. He takes the left over water from his sippy cup and pours it in. Then he sends the train off around the track a few times. Puff Puff Puff....Woooooooooo Woooooooo!
While his train is at work, he climbs up to the top bunk and rummages around in the blankets up there and pulls out a beautiful Royal Doulton espresso cup and saucer and climbs back down.
He pours his espresso into the fine china, and sits on the edge of his bed. He crosses one dinosaur pajama leg over the other and sips elegantly. Perhaps he even has a biscotti hidden somewhere that he dips in his drink. When he is done, he returns the cup back to its hiding place and closes up his ducky.
Then he waits.
When he starts to feel the effects kick in, he jumps up and touches he ceiling three times, spins in circles then picks his nose and goes out to wake his parents and start the day.