About a Squirrel

Easy- E has decided that the best animal in the world abounds in our backyard.

 

He spends a good portion of each day gazing lovingly out of windows and doors, alerting us to every one of these bushy-tailed beasts he spies with his little eye.

 

 

He also has his own personal buddy, Earl, who accompanies him on every important outing.

 

 

What comes next should’ve been obvious….but hindsight is always 20/20.

 

My dear friend Amy called me in on some help for her darling daughter’s preferred Halloween costume. 

 

 

That’s right , a flying squirrel.

 

Half-way through this project, I asked my husband, “Do you want to see this squirrel so far?”

 

The next noise I heard was not an answer from my old man but the stomping of small feet.

“Worl?”, he asked.

So I displayed the hoodie with ears, and he demanded, “WORL!”

So I put it on him.

He stood happily, arms straight out to the sides, drowning in a sea of brown fabric.

 

“Okay buddy, time to take it off. Mama’s still got work to do.”

“UH!”, he cried, dodging me and skittering out of reach.

 

Three attempts later, I retrieved an outgrown brown hooded fleece pullover from J’s closet and presented it to him.

“Look.  Mama will make YOU a squirrel. This squirrel is for our friend.”

He finally allowed me to remove the half-finished costume.

 

Days later, I began removing a front pocket from the fleece.  E wandered up, put one little finger on the pullover and said softly, “Worl.”

 

The result:

 

 

 

 

Hanging out with The Penguin.

 

 

 

The elusive tail.