Herman by Jim Unger for December 07, 2022

he’s “Masha and The Bear” type.

For me it was wheels on the bus and Dora the Explorer

Precocious!

Time to break out the Shakespeare. But keep it short and light. The Sonnets, perhaps.

Time of year to read How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Timeless.

“You think it’s cute making mistakes on purpose so I’ll correct you? Lemme out of here and I’ll read that book to YOU! I got it memorized!”

Story is too close to home for the kid. All he’s missing is the treadmill.

He needs Hamster Hughie and the Gooey Kablooey. (will they ever find his head?)

“Actually, it’s ‘Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie’, but point taken.”

I am glad that The Hobbit came out as a movie when my sons were in their 40s. Otherwise I would have been told that I was doing all the voices wrong. For one thing, Gandalf sounded like Sir Alex Guinness (I think he would have made a good Gandalf).

Need to step up the bedtime story reading material to a higher level for the precious kid.

“Horace the Hamster” is probably driving you nuts. “Gary the Gorilla” would drive you bananas.

He was hoping the first words would be ‘Dada’.

Imagine what it did to Horace…

Try Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

“… let’s move on to GODFREY THE GIBBON already!!”

Not ready for Stephen King yet?

By the way, when do I come up for parole?

Hey Pops, do you have anything by Stephen King?