How Piko Got His Shell

One of the stories that we read to Evan is "How the Turtle Got His Shell." It has a few legends and one of them says that the Creator ran out of 'special stuff' by the time the shell-less turtle got there. So he turned over his empty soup bowl and placed it on the back of the turtle.

Evan talks about his stories and things he sees on TV at random times, so we have to be quick to catch on to his meaning. (One time Evan kept repeating a phrase over and over and we couldn't understand what he was saying... Finally, Pops figured out he was saying a quote from one of his Halloween books: 'Who says boo all light and airy?' To this day, Evan repeats the phrase and then adds in, "Poppa got it.")

Today, we found Piko napping on the ottoman. Evan was carrying around his miniature pillow and started talking to Piko. He placed the pillow on top of Piko (Piko must have loved this) and told me, "Evan give Piko a turtle shell. It's an empty soup bowl!"