As you may remember, Richie started naming some of his toys. Just a few, but the names he has picked are very imaginative! I think Elliott has introduced Grellow and XYZ already. A couple of weeks ago I got Richie out of bed and he was goofing around with the growth chart in his room and singing something about a giraffe. Then I realized that he was saying Guillory the Giraffe in the song. I asked him who Guillory the Giraffe was and he pointed to the stuffed giraffe in his bed and told me it was THAT giraffe as if I should have KNOWN that! I picked up the giraffe and held it toward him and asked him if this was Guillory. Yep. ;-)

Back at Passover Richie and I went to a kids thing at School 22 on Light Street where one of the synagogues from north of the city has set up a Hebrew school. They have kids things for the different holidays. They had a game set up for the plagues that were visited upon the Egyptians and apparently they could not find plastic locusts (go figure) and so they just had a bunch of bugs. Richie became enamored with a pretty realistic-looking caterpillar and one of the teachers told Richie he could take him home. The other day Richie gave it a name. Mind you he has had this thing since Passover. I do not know how to spell it, but phonetically it is /bee EYE ness/. Yes, /bee EYE ness/! And /Bee EYE ness/ is male. Richie told me so. I keep wanting to call it Beyonce. Where did he get THAT name?!? Who knows?
Please welcome /Bee EYE ness/!-MaryLee