Abe has been hilarious, albeit a little annoying. He has discovered the intercom system in the house and takes every opportunity to talk on it. He pulls the stool over to the one in the hallway, or stands on his train table in the living room to reach the one there. Then he’ll call everyone into dinner, or more importantly, will make several “Answers” which I’m sure he means “Announcements.” They go something like this:
“Attention, please. May I have your attention, please.” (Sometimes he’ll start with, “Please excuse this answer” (meaning announcement.) “Our pledge of allegiance will be led today by Mom, Grandma, Zorra, and Jared” (or whoever.) Then he’ll recite the pledge in English, then in Spanish, (if he can see me, he requires that I say it with him), then the character counts pledge which he finally says correctly by inserting ‘to be fair and trustworthy’ to replace his former statement of ‘to be a disappointment’. Then he’ll say something like, “Today there will be a fire drill. Please wait out by the trees until you are called to come back inside. I will be in the office doing work.” And sometimes he’ll add, “Tomorrow will be the fun run.” He’ll carry on with his ‘answers’ for awhile, then will say “Thank you and have a good day.” Then he comes running to me to say, “Did you hear the answers?”
I have learned that when he is in the middle of his announcements, there is no getting him to hurry – he has to finish whatever announcements there are for that time, before he can get in the car, or on the bus, or in the tub, etc. Aggghhhhh. It’s like when he’s ‘landing a plane’ and it has to go through it’s ‘final approach’ and ‘taxi to the gate’ before he can leave it to do whatever it is I need him to do. Which reminds me. He’ll get on the intercom and say, “Attention passengers: For those of you flying to Louisville on Flight B-17 (which was our gate number flying out of Louisville) we will begin boarding in ten minutes.”
Oh - this morning he announced that "Today will be train day. We will make trains, and play with trains, and learn all about trains. Tomorrow will be plane day. Thank you and have a nice day."
