Poor Mommy! She had a beary incomplete childhood!

Hey, wait a minute! I had Axlerod, and other stuffed animals, and dolls, a dollhouse, tea parties, made forts, played pretend, climbed trees – it was a good childhood!

Good, maybe, but not complete! You never had a Teddy Bear nor heard any of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. That is rather sad.

Then I’m having a very good grown-up-hood, since you came along, then your family, and finally Santa and Sandy Paws gave you the original edition of Winnie-the-Pooh?

Yes! Yes, indeed! And, yet, even though we got the book at Christmas, you didn’t start reading it to us until today!

Sorry! Had insomnia, and, well you know, we’ve been busy playing with my present –the complete collection of Morrowind, including the two expansions. Hey, the first character played on this new edition was Spaulding, the Tough, so not like we haven’t had some fun, even if I don’t always sleep at night!

Love Morrowind, but Winnie-the-Pooh, Mommy! Winnie-the-Pooh!

Sorry, but we did read the first chapter today with the whole family! Wasn’t it good?!

Good enough to let you review the chapter on our blog!!! Go ahead! Tell everyone what happened.

Eh, eh, hmmm! (Clearing my throat and putting on my best reviewing voice.) Well, what I liked about the book, so far, is how Christopher Robin asks his father to tell a story for, and about his bear, Pooh! During the story, Christopher Robin, or Pooh interrupts the story to ask questions.

What does “interrupt,” mean?

That!

What?!

(Smiling.) “Interrupt” means stopping the storyteller from telling the story to make a comment or ask a question.

Oh! So I in-ner-rup-teded your story?

Yup! That! But that’s what I really enjoyed. Not only were Christopher Robin and Winnie interrupting the story, but also you and the entire family interrupted me reading it to ask questions, like “Why would he prefer honey over hotdogs? Hotdogs are much easier to get!” It felt like we were with Mr. Milne, Christopher Robin and Pooh joining right in!

I’m not sure I liked the scary part though!

When Winnie was getting stung by the suspicious bees?

Did he get stung? Oh, yeah! I forgot! Bee stings don’t hurt teddy bears too much! No, I was talking ‘bout the scary part!!!

What scary part then? The ending! We saw “taM htaB” and thought poor Winnie had to get a b-a-t-h, a’cuz he got all muddy to look like a black cloud!

But Christopher Robin asked his Daddy, if he was going to come up to give Christopher Robin the bath!

Like Peoples would never try fooling a Teddy Bear just to give us a b-a-t-h?!

Ummm, you saw the drawing…

Winnie is quite the artist!

Yes, he is, and he drew Christopher Robin taking the bath, while Winnie watched, safely out of the water.

Oh! We just saw a b-a-t-h tub!

So, was it a good story, now that you know Winnie never needed to be clean?

It was Winnie-the-Pooh – of course, it was most excellent! When do we get to hear Chapter 2?!

Keep reminding me, and when we have time….

Now?!

Sorry, got work to do.

Now?!

Spaulding?!

Now?!

Stop that – probably not today.