“Daddy? Let me tell you something. When I turn 5, I’m going to marry mama.”
“Why?” I ask
“Because I like her.”
Elliot asks again and again if we can watch “Monster from the Black Lagoon.” His new winter hat is supposed to be the monster. I tell him the correct name of the movie, but he likes Monster more than Creature. He doesn’t change his lingo.
I tell him it might be scary; we can watch it together. Remember we turned off “Gremlins” because it got too scary?
We watch all of it together. I’m impressed with his attention span. He asked lots of questions during the movie. At the end, he asks if movies are like long stories? And I say yes, they are just like long stories.
While drifting off to sleep, he asks, “Who would win? A hagfish vs Monster From the Black lagoon?” We debate it a bit and both agree the hagfish would lose. Even ten hagfish would lose.
