Hammerheads

Andrew and I had an illuminating discussion this morning. Last night, I got out a bunch of his new short sleeve shirts now that the weather has warmed up. Among his things, I found this shark hat (you can't see it very well, but that's a hammerhead on the hat). Andrew insisted on wearing it this morning atop his pajamas. But when I said, "okay, come over here Mr. Hammerhead and let's get you dressed," he responded: "Hammerhead sharks don't walk. They swim." Followed by, "Hammerhead sharks don't wear clothes. They don't wear pajamas either."* Followed by his rapid disrobing. With some ingenuity, I managed to persuade him not to remove his underwear too, by finding some gray colored underwear and convincing him that shark *could* wear this, because it would match his coloring.


Here are some other facts you should know about Hammerhead sharks (I'm typing more or less verbatim what Andrew tells me):

They don't have dollies. They sleep by themselves (accompanied by a callous discarding of Andrew's beloved dolly. Although she's back now.)
Hammerhead sharks swim. And they jump. And they like to have lots of fun with their families. But sometimes their daddies say that everyone (the mommies and daddies and grandmas and grandpas) have to go away. And the hammerhead shark was sad. He was very sad.
Hammerhead sharks can't move when they're cold. So they walk into bedrooms and get a nice blanket (said as he drags his own blanket across the kitchen floor).

I love that Andrew talks about himself in third person! As a Hammerhead shark no less!

*I have to admit that part of what I found so funny about this conversation was remembering my freshman year at BYU, when someone had decided on a theme of "Cougars Don't Cut Corners" (i.e., living honestly). But unfortunately this lead to all kinds of clever riffs on the topic: when little chains were posted at the corners of the grassy areas to prevent trampling, some smart aleck went around and cut the corners off of all the signs. Someone else went to great trouble to print off pictures of real cougars, accompanied by slogans like, "Cougars don't go to class." "Cougars run through the forest naked." Etc.