5 - Meeting someone new ...

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Owl and Squid don't look quite right in the second one. But I like the crepe paper overlays to make their bodies. Owl has sort of Groucho Marx eyebrows in the yarn version.

I took Zoë to guitar lessons today. (We've been going for a while but haven't really been very disciplined about practicing, frankly. We aren't very good yet.) And at one point she emitted the most astonishing sneeze out of nowhere, halfway through "Twinkle Twinkle". It echoed through the little practice chamber. Like unto a panda baby. (Fortunately it was a dry sneeze or lord knows how we would ever have cleaned up the walls.) 

So on the way home we wrote a song: Twinkle twinkle great big sneeze/Coming out just when you please/Blowing like a great big breeze/Knocking down all of the trees ...

Comments

[Brock]

Is Squid's nose (beak? mouth?) pointed the wrong direction in the second one? In all the other illustrations it points toward his tentacles, not away from them.

[jholbo]

Yeah, I thought I would try to give him an upturned, for a change. Maybe not a good look for the little guy.

[Bill Benzon]

Kids play guitar.

And here's Chicchi playing Pipeline, Telstar, and Secret Agent Man. She rocks, & she's only 8. It's all crazy future music.

[Brock]

Yes, the upturned nose/beak/mouth makes him look afraid.