First Story

Mike here:

This morning, Spencer and I were goofing off in the living room, playing and hanging out.

There was a handy pocket-size "French at a Glance" paperback on the table which had been unearthed from Lydia's collection. Spencer picked it up, started flipping through it, and then carefully folded the front cover back to the first page. "I'm gonna tell (or was it 'read'?) a story."

"Ok Spencer, tell me a story."

And then, lo and behold, Spencer told his first original story -- reproduced and published here, exclusively, at thebambinoblog:

One day I went for a walk with my friend daddy.

There was a large kitty.

(all exact quotes so far, Spencer flips a page in "French at a Glance")

He said, "meow!"

(flips a page)

I petted the kitty. He was soft.

(another page turned)

There was other large kitty. He sat on the car.

(some prompting here, 'What happened next, Spencer' I said. Another page turned. Then, deliberately...)


There was a doggy. He said, "woof woof."


Spencer turned up from the book and looked at me. "You're telling a story!" I said amazed. "What happens next?"

"Find mommy," Spencer said. Which I took to be a real-world command rather than part of the story.

So we did. And she was just as amazed and enthralled as I was by Spencer's first story.

Which, you have to assume, is only the first part of a trilogy. I mean, what was the other kitty doing sitting on that car? And to end on the doggy's oblique, "woof woof" -- ? There has to be a payoff for that in Part 2, right?

Whether there's a follow-up or not, our little boy's imagination is clearly on the rise.

Already, a storyteller!