Monday, September 18, 2006

Huge Sucsax

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At the mall, there's a jazz-themed playground with a drumset for a tunnel, a piano as a bridge, and a saxophone for a slide. Everything is made of a rubbery sort of material; it's really neat and quite safe.

We hadn't been there in a while. The last time few times there, Theo tried to climb up the saxaphone. But it's not like a ladder, where there are rungs, so it' s a matter of using your strength and getting a good grip to hoist yourself up there, so you can slide down. Theo was too little to do this in the past (it's quite tricky). But I loved him for not giving up. He always tried on his own before coming to me for help.

On Saturday, when we got to the playground I had to pin Theo down to get his shoes off before he could get to his saxophone slide. I rejoined Lisandra at our table, just outside the playground, in the food court. We watched Theo's little blonde head pop up every few minutes as he attempted his ambitious climb. I realized I should have taken Theo's socks off to give him more friction. Aunt Lisa sweetly volunteered to do it. But by the time she got to him to take his socks off, she couldn't find him! That's because he was already inside the saxophone, sliding down.

No more saxophone blues for this cool cat. Now he's playing a different tune.

2 comments:

Elyse Orecchio said...

Well, Ms. Smarty Pants, first of all huge sucsax is a pun. so THERE. Harumph

As for the rest of it, I think I was overtly obnoxious with my jazz metaphors, and so that makes it okay. Because it means I'm not taking myself too seriously and trying to produce poetic crap that'll make you swoon at my brilliance, even though I have no idea what I'm talking about. Which is Georgie's problem with mixed metaphors.

So you suck, jerk.

And I'm kidding, cuz you totally cracked me up too, and Joe is absolutely going to love the quote you threw in.

Hey, did you know I re-read 1984 when I was pregnant? Is that relevant?

Elyse Orecchio said...

Hell, that IS the ultimate. I bet that writer's mom thought she was so creative. Georgie O. would have had a FIELD DAY with that one.