We've been reading the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.  Two nights ago, we read "The Beginning of the Armadillos".  This led to much laughter because of the following two passages, which I had to read three times each:

"Perhaps she said that when you water a Hedgehog you drop him into your paw, and when you meet a Tortoise you must shell him till he uncoils....When you scoop water with your paw you uncoil it with a Hedgehog...when you paw your meat you drop it into a Tortoise with a scoop."

"Well, suppose you say that I said that she said something quite different.  I don't see that it makes any difference; because if she said what you said I said she said, it's just the same as if I said what she said she said."

So, the next thing I knew, Samuel was asking me if we could go to the zoo to see the armadillo.  I didn't even know our zoo had one.  We went today and at first we couldn't see it because it was hiding, but Samuel was very patient and finally we were rewarded with a sighting.  Even after it has paraded around for us and gone into hiding again, we stayed to "observe" in case in came out again.  So different from the many children I see racing from one animal to the next.

So now our next step is to find a good book from the library and learn more about the funny animal we first read about in a made up story.