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i had rented a muppets christmas carol. hubby loves the story of scrooge, but i don't really care for it. i decided watching it with muppets might be more entertaining and the kids would enjoy it. so last night we ate ice cream and watched the movie.

about half way into it, mapboy, age 7, suggested the kermit sounded just like ernie. after listening a while i had to agree. as princess shares her fears about the ghosts, mapboy proudly exclaims it is fiction. impressive eh?

so....he explains to her that means that even though the people are real the story isn't. i say, "well, they are puppets. just like on sesame street." silence.

hmm...hubby and i look at mapboy who appears to be in great thought. hubby asks him if he knew they were puppets and he just looked at us. WOW!!! i never thought about that.

scrooge was played by michael cain so now mapboy is deeply perplexed as to how scrooge looks so real. then i explain that the movie is part human, part puppets. he seems a little disturbed by this information and doesn't ask us another question!!!

i have to wonder....what did he think about all of this? was this new information to him? did i just shatter his sense of childhood wonder??????

and, yes, kermit and ernie do sound an awful lot alike!

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Anonymous said…
We also watched the Muppet Christmas Carol this year! I enjoy the story and Chris likes the the Muppets, so I thought it was a good compromise. We enjoyed it and hope you did to. That is very funny you son, we are few years from such questions!
Brooke
December 13, 2007 at 9:31 PM
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