Goodnight Gorilla

By the time we get home, and Clara is fed, and bathed, and pajama-ed, and nursed, she is often times too tuckered out to have any books read to her. But tonight, Julie managed a few, one of which was Goodnight Gorilla, and--Clara laughed at the punch line page! She got it! She's smiled at it before, but this was a big, real laugh. Julie remembers when Joe first laughed at this page, too. Julie remembers when beginning this whole reading-to-the-bambini adventure, that she thought these make-up-your-own words books* were sort of for the birds.** Turns out, they are really are! One Bird anyway, and Our Hero.

*Goodnight Gorilla, and Carl. Oh that Carl. Clara also seems to like the Carl books. Not sure if she thinks Carl is a relation of Berenice's.

**Sort of for the birds--i.e. extra work for reader. Which, they are. But turns out to be not as hard as one thinks.