Since Thursday and the airing of Robot Monkey Hullabaloo starring my favorite monkey Curious George…Andrew has wanted to build a robot. So I started collecting Kleenex boxes, paper towel rolls, etc…Jim said my job was to distract him every time he mentioned building the robot as the thought of doing this frightened him more than marriage did all those years ago.
Sunday 3 p.m. there was no further distraction possible. Jim commenced the building of our robot. He got out boxes, tape, drills, etc. When it was semi-finished Andrew broke down in tears….Andrew what is wrong? my husband asked. (I knew the answer.)
“It….it….isn’t very beautiful…”. Jim didn’t know our 3 1/2 year old had such high standards. I put a stainless steel bowl on it’s head and told Andrew my plans for decorating it. We’re all taking a break and trying to recover from the less than beautiful robot….we’ll take another stab at it when we’re all fresh and the sting of disappointment isn’t so raw.
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