Cole And The Beanstalk

My son loves the show Super Why!  If you haven't seen the show, its about 4 characters (Whyatt, Pig, Red Riding Hood, and Princess Pea) that live in a Fairytale land called Storybrook Village.  Every episode, one of the characters has a problem.  In order to solve this problem the characters take on their Super persona's (Super Why, Alpha Pig, Wonder Red, and Princess Presto) to enter a famous story book where they use letters, spelling, words and reading to help the characters dilemmas in the book and ultimately solve their own problem.  Its a really good show and since Cole is such a visual learner we're glad to let him watch it.

Friday was a beautifully sunny day here so we let the kids play outside.  In the meantime Dave began the process of tearing down a vine on the side of our house,which was used to conceal the gas metre line into the house and the satellite dish which belonged to the previous owners.  We had no use for the dish,and the vine was getting unruly and blocking us from seeing where our ant infestation was entering the house.  Cole came upon Dave on the ladder grabbing this vine while I was holding the bottom of the ladder.  He began to shout excitedly "beanstalk", "Jack and the Beanstalk".  He came over to the ladder and began tugging at the pieces on the ground that had already been removed.  I gave Cole a small piece of the vine and he began dancing around chanting "beanstalk" and bellowing "Fee, Fi, Foe, Fum".  He followed by jabbering his normal garbble and then proceeded to fall to the ground.  I instantly knew he was acting out one of his favourite Super Why! episodes ... Jack and the Beanstalk, of course!  That piece of vine kept that kid occupied for 45 minutes or more.  The whole episode put a smile on my face and totally made my day.  The "beanstalk" is currently residing in the playhouse outside since beanstalks aren't really an indoor plant.