I'm being bombarded with earnest and incessant commentary on Charlie and Lola and Sizzles. This would be fine, except that I'm also required to show I understand all Berry's garbled Charlie-and-Lola insights by making detailed Charlie-and-Lola comments of my own... or there's capital-t Trouble. Faking it with "oh, really!" or "wow!" just isn't good enough.
Of course, this is all the Easter Bunny's fault.
The "Easter Bunny" (unlike her husband) was raised in a world of very few lollies, and balks at the thought of two-year-olds eating chocolate. So Berry's Easter basket contained two Charlie and Lola books, a Charlie and Lola DVD, a giant plastic egg with Elmo and Grover figurines, and one mini Tootsie Roll. The Tootsie Roll was gone in a heartbeat, but she's been completely absorbed by the rest ever since.
The Easter egg hunt late in the day was a roaring success, and the egg decorating in the morning was pretty good even though it brought on some inexplicable (post-Tootsie Roll low?) tears: "I bit sad, mama. I bit sad. I angry." By the time we went out for a fancy brunch with Grandpa Tom, she'd recovered enough to tackle a long series of mini-muffins.
So I don't know exactly what kind of mish-mash message she's taken away from the whole Easter experience this year, but I'm pretty sure it involves Charlie and Lola. Maybe we can straighten things out in 2009.
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