I recently got Gage this awesome collection of stories, activities, and recipes based on the If You Give series. In If You Give a Moose a Muffin, the moose decides to make sock puppets. (After, of course, he ate all the muffins, was going to the store, put on a sweater with a missing button, was sewing it back on, and was reminded of the sock puppets his grandmother used to make, naturally.)
Gage though these seemed pretty cool, so I got some craft stuff (and new socks, because, as you'll understand if you've met me, or just put your feet within 14 miles of me, the thought of decorating and putting my hand into old socks made me throw up in my throat a little.). Moomah came over and we each made a sock puppet. Mark made Mario (as in Brothers), and Gage made a goofy thing with big ears.
My mom's was an alien.
And mine was a hairy spider.
The next night, we created a puppet show with them. As with all little boys, Gage went into destroyer mode, and they are again lonely socks with no eyes to see and no eyebrows to wiggle. Don't worry, Mom. Yours made it through. :)
