(it’s back!)
The background: This summer Ellie started carrying around imaginary sea stars (aka starfish). She would walk around with her fists closed, carrying her sea star. Every now and then she would ask me or Jason to hold her sea star when she needed her hands to do things like coloring or holding the stair banister.
The setting: We were all swimming at the lake. (all=me, Jason, Ellie, Abram, my parents, and cousin Sarah) We had been calling Ellie and Sarah little dolphins. The girls were holding onto each others’ life jackets to swim together.
Jason: (seeing Ellie and Sarah swimming together) Can I join the dolphin school?
Ellie and Sarah: Okay!
(a short while of splashing and playing later)
Kristie: (sees Ellie holding her fists closed) Ellie, are you holding your sea stars?
Ellie: No, they are books.
Kristie: Books?
Ellie: Yeah, because I am in the dolphin class.
Kristie: (huh?)……Oh right! The dolphin school!
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