sam the storyteller

Sam loves to have us tell him stories. Sometimes the stories are made up on-the-spot, and other times he requests to hear stories about recent highlights of his life (like our trip to Olympia and Mt. St. Helens in September). This week, though, Sam started to make up his own stories. We have to give a lot of prompts like, "And then what happened?" to keep things rolling, but they are really darling.

One story involved all of the extended members of the B family. Each person would go to the park, fall down, and "bonk" a different part of their body. I can't remember all of the injuries, but I do remember that Bop bonked his back and N bonked his nose. Then a different family member would come up and kiss the bonk better. It was really cute.

Most of the time, though, Sam's stories have been about animals. These stories always abruptly end after a shark and a dolphin are introduced to the narrative. For example, this is the story he told me last night in the car:

"Once 'pon a time, there was a monkey. He name George. He eat...bananas. Then...there was...a gorilla. He eat meat. And then a shark and a dolphin came. The end."