Bread Toast Peanut Butter Not Really

Today Austin wanted to have a meeting with me. He put the big, blue exercise ball on the loveseat, sat on it and instructed me to sit on the couch. After a minute he said "I am going to tell you a story" (perhaps influenced by Nana reading him a Little Bear story about Grandfather Bear telling a story via SKYPE this morning, but who knows).

This is pretty much verbatim the story:
"There was a baby bunny named Phone and a big bunny named Phone too. They had a daddy named Egg and they went to the beach. Phone and phone saw a bear in a cave named Peter. Then they saw a friend. His name was bread (um) toast, peanut butter not really. (me "really, wow that was his name?" ) yeah. "

And then there was some more that I can't remember as clearly, but he was a very animated stroy teller. I don't know where all that came from...the beach I am sure is because of our impending trip to Guam.

I guess I haven't mentioned this on the blog yet. We decided we have so many frequent flyer miles built up that we would take a vacation somewhere in SE Asia. You only need 20,000 miles to go anywhere in SE Asia. So we tried Malaysia and Thailand and even considered Singapore (though it is so expensive) but there were no tickets available. None, in a two week period, since it was around Chinese New Year. So I had pretty much given up, but Chris started looking at more options and came up with Guam...tropical island that is basically America, out in the middle of the ocean. I was a little skeptical at first, fearing a horrendous travel schedule. But we prayed and the only place with tickets for dates that worked for us was Guam. It is actually a pretty easy flight schedule too. Two 3 hour flights with an hour and a half layover in between. So, I digress from the story, but that is our new news. We leave Feb. 18.

Austin has been really into "not really" lately. He keeps asking me how to say it in Chinese...there is no good exact translation that I know. Anyway, his little mind is always working and coming up with funny things. I think story telling may become a new thing with him. Next time I want to have the computer out to transcribe it.