Shark attack

Dropping Lucas off at daycare this morning, I heard quite a tale about sharks. "There was a shark in the water. It tried to eat a girl! She got away though. It bit her! It was in the ocean by grandma Jackie's. It bit grandma Jackie. But she hit it with a pin. Then it was dead. She hit it with the pin."*

Oddly, when we got indoors at daycare, Nina happened to be running around with a stuffed shark she'd brought from home. ("Is that yours?" "No! It's the whole family's.")


* We think he came up with the pin-weapon from that story about the Lion with a thorn in his paw, which we read a couple of days ago. When he asked what a "thorn" is, mama explained that it's like a pin.

Incidentally, this story illustrates a basic structural feature of most of Lucas's made-up stories: The original details keep changing. The victim starts out as just some "girl" but then when the thought crosses his mind she becomes "Grandma Jackie". And although you could argue this, I thought he originally implied that the victim had gotten away without injury, but suddenly we hear that she'd been bitten.