Elephant's Grandma has been visiting. This sent Merry into a flurry of cleaning, telephone calls to Cocoa, and bearing with Elephant, who is naughty: You're a bad, bad mommy, he keeps telling Merry.
Occasionally, though, he does show a more endearing side of his personality like yesterday at nap time:
Elephant: I’m scared.
Merry: Elephant, think about good things. Think about Treat Day tomorrow. That’s the thing to think about.
Elephant: Can I have the light on for six minutes?
Merry: FIVE.
At bedtime last night I asked after Elephant's Grandma, who looks a lot like an African doll with a green tyedyed dress who sits most of the day atop Merry's quilt. Apparently, though Grandma appears to be listless, she has been very busy all day doing her homework and babysitting Elephant. Tonight she ate a very healthy dinner of spaghetti noodles, a biscuit, and a dish of Cheerios.
Baby Dear, Merry's other child, has been keeping us all up with her shenanigans. We hear her singing to herself and then Merry switches on the light and says in a very quiet, even voice,
Baby Dear, I'm sorry I'm mad, but you should not be doing that. I'm going to tell Cocoa and he'll be very disappointed. You won't be a good person when you grow up if you do bad things all the time. If I hear you again talking to yourself, you're going to lose a privilege. Now this is the LAST TIME.
There is some question of how long Grandma will stay. The latest rumor was two weeks, though with Elephant's Grandma you never can tell.
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