Today was the 100th day of the academic year at my kids’ school. All the grades observe this in some festive way. The kindergarten — of which Tiny Beowulf is a member — celebrate by having every child make a poster for homework in the couple of weeks leading up to the 100th day upon which they must mount 100 items in some sort of grouping. For example, the year my daughter was in kindergarten, she brought in a posterboard with ten groups of ten Disney princess stickers. It was adorable, and she was proud of her work, and we were proud of her.
Well, Tiny Beowulf wasn’t interested in putting stickers on a posterboard No, he had his own design concept in mind. We went to the craft store to find supplies, and he picked out a red foam board. Dark red, because that’s one of the colors he can reliably see with his particular cocktail of vision anomalies. And when we got home, he asked for a black Sharpie — always a dangerous proposition — and drew a monster.
What were his 100 items, you might be asking?
Googly eyes. Yes, 100 googly eyes. Ten on the monster’s face and ninety on the monster’s ninety eyestalks.
After pasting the ten eyes on the face itself, I suggested the monster should maybe have a nose and a mouth.
“Oh, good idea,” Tiny Beowulf said. Then he meticulously drew a single dot for the nose and a short, upwardly-curving line for the mouth. Seriously. See if you can find them amidst all those eyeballs.
The best part? (Other than the sheer incredible awesomeness, that is.) No one is going to think Mom and Dad did his homework for him. And that’s just the way we all like it.
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THIS IS THE CUTIEST THBING EVER!!!!! I had the best laugh over it Wonderful to know that he has a unique imagination…
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It really is amazing. I laugh — in the good way — every time I see it. When it comes down off the bulletin board in the hallway outside his classroom, it’s probably going to go up in mine.
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I lost the dare and giggled and chuckled and laughed. And I think the monster has a most adorable smile!
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I love it, too, but nothing beats that nose!
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Good grief – Beowulf has conjured up Grendel! :O
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 🙂
LOVE it.
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Very excellent.
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Thanks!
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Sci-fi programming has not exploited the rich potential of the 100-googly-eyed monster. I think the Dr. Who creatives would be very interested in Tiny Beowulf come on board as a consultant.
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Oh, holy incoherent statements. I think faster than I type. “…*having* TB come on board…”
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I knew what you meant. 🙂
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Maybe his paycheck could go toward tuition. 😉
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Hey, I think there’s an Indian story of Arjuna asking Krishna to reveal truth to him, and it’s a beast with all these eyes. Maybe your son is Krishna?
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You know, that’s really funny, because when he was little he used to “see” elephants in the sky, and one of our Hindu friends suggested he was seeing Lord Ganesh. This seemed like a reasonable explanation at the time.
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