'Ere We Go Again!

It's been awhile... I knew well ahead of children that life does that to you, no matter what the circumstances.

Over the past month the storytelling duties got passed onto my wife and ultimately dropped, although the blogging was the obvious first choice of sacrifice. The Three Little Pigs are still there, and David the Gnome has had adventures in Oz, helping a princess find a prince, babysitting gnome and Martian babies, and sailing a boat. And my wife loves to make David bake cupcakes for some reason.

Tonight the sleep schedule was re-established, and David came back, along with his friend Kenny, as they sailed their boat in the sea. A big storm came up and the big waves knocked the gnomes and their boat out of the sea. They woke up on a desert island, and after starting the process of fixing the boat, were met by strange gnomes.

David: Hello there

Strange Gnomes: Hello, we would like to eat you.

Okay, okay, I admit that the tonight I introduced my soon-to-be three year old daughter to cannibalism.

The cannibal gnomes chased David around until Kenny could construct a clever pull the rope, trip the cannibals, and dash away to safety gag. They fixed their boat and got home, where David and his wife were very happy to see each other again.

Maja immediately picked up that the cannibal gnomes were bad guys, but I was more impressed by the flurry of questions she asked afterwards:

"Do David and his wife have TV?"

"What movies do they own?"

"What stories do they tell each other?"

It seems like David the Gnome and his wife are becoming real, albeit short, people.

Now I just need to find a name for his wife

Introducing ...Princessess

We did have one skipped night with no stories, which would have been a welcome respite, if it weren't for the one-year old's desire to party rock into the wee hours of the morning.

Three Little Pigs appear appear to be SOP according to Maja. I can certainly do this now with my eyes closed, and my head on a pillow.

David was a bit harder. Nothing came to me during the day, so while I did the mandatory backstory, "David the Gnome lives with his wife in a tree in the woods, he has a squirrel as a friend....." I took the two major themes: David helps people, and Maja has been talking about (but not pretending to be) a princess.

David the Gnome was walking through the woods when he came upon a crying princess *sheer glee comes to Maja's face*. The princess' carriage had a broken wheel and they didn't have an extra one. David offered to take the princess home for dinner, and he would have his friend Kenny the Gnome take a look at the wheel and see if he could fix it.

David, David's wife (still no name) and the unnamed princess had a great time eating dinner, playing games, and having a sleepover. The next morning Kenny the Gnome had fixed the wheel, and the princess could go on her way, but not before giving an open invitation for David to visit her kingdom anytime he wanted.