Caroline’s school has show and tell once a week and we’re supposed to bring something that starts with the letter of the week. Last week was the letter “A”, so I did some serious looking around the house and found an arrowhead. Perfection.
I showed it to Caroline and told her it was a rock that Indians had carved to make an arrow so that they could use it to hunt. She was intrigued and I could see the wheels turning in her mind.
Mimi and Bops showed up a little later to see her and she wanted to show them her precious arrowhead. She launched into a long story about someone named (as near as we can tell) Nibblewise. Apparently this arrowhead belonged to an Indian named Nibblewise and it was very IMPORTANT. He used it to shoot “Hiyotes” (coyotes) and Javelinas. She was very serious about her story and it went on and on and on. At one point I picked up our phone bill to look it over and she said “Mama, you need to put down that paper and listen about Nibblewise”. So I did. And when she finished her tale, she looked us all in the eye and said “Now you need to clap”. We gave her a thunderous round of applause.
The girl has a future in fiction writing. I can’t even do justice to the telling of the legend of Nibblewise. I’m not sure if the class got the same story during show and tell, but if they did, it was a real treat.