Mommy, the Sofa Ate Violet!!!

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Tim, and his baby sister Violet lived with their Mommy and Daddy in Austin, Texas.  One day Mommy said “Let’s go visit Nana and Pops in Florida.  It is a bit cold here in February and it’s much warmer at Nana and Pops’ and we can swim in the pool and go to the beach. “Yippee,” said Tim, “Gurgle, gurgle,” said Violet.  The very next day they were off to Nana and Pops’ house in Florida.  They flew on a big airplane and Tim and especially Violet were very good passengers.  Nana and Pops picked them up at the airport and drove to their house.  The drive was an hour long through big trees and over bridges spanning lovely bodies of clear water.  

When they arrived, Mommy settled them in the spare bedroom.  Tim immediately took his toy soldiers and small toy cars into the living room to play.   Nana and Pops had two large sofas with big cushions and pillows. “What a great place to play with my toys,” said Tim as he jumped up on one of the sofas.  Violet said “Gurgle, gurgle” as she crawled on the living room rug. They both liked the living room very much.  They had a very busy day.

The next morning after Mommy and Nana fixed a very good breakfast, Tim and Violet were off to the living room to play again.  Tim new he had eight toy soldiers and 5 little cars, but he could only find 5 toy soldiers and three cars. What happened to the other toys?

Tim searched everywhere in the living room and could not find them. He asked Violet if she saw them and she said “Gurgle, gurgle.”  

So, Tim went into the kitchen and told his Mommy and Nana about his missing toys.  Nana laughed and said, “I think the sofa ate them.”  Tim said, “What?” Nana said “Come with me and I will show you.”  So, they went into the living room where Nana pulled one of the big cushions off one of the sofas.  Nothing there except a few crumbs.

Then she pulled the cushions off the other sofa and bingo there were Tim’s missing toy soldiers and cars.  Nana said, “See the sofa ate them.”  They all laughed and Violet said, as she crawled on the rug, “Gurgle, gurgle.”

Every day Tim, Violet, Mommy and Nan and Pops went to the pool.  Tim was learning to swim and Violet loved splashing the water from her tugboat floater.  In the afternoon, Tim and Violet were tired and they took a nice nap.

After their nap, they would again play in the living room.  Tim would say, “Wow look at my cars go’’ and Violet would say, “Gurgle, gurgle.”

One afternoon while they were playing, Violet was crawling and investigating the living room from ground level.  Tim saw her by a big sofa.  When he looked again he could not see Violet only her little feet sticking out from under the sofa.  Within the next second she was gone! No sign of little Violet.  Tim, remembering what Nana had said about the sofa eating things, became alarmed and yelled as loud as he could, “Mommy the sofa ate Violet!”

Nana and Mommy came running from the kitchen, where they were preparing Dinner.  “Tim where is Violet?” Mommy asked.  Tim said in the sofa! The sofa ate her!  Nana and Mommy rushed over to the sofa and pulled off one big cushion.  “No Violet here!” they exclaimed.  Then they pulled the second cushion.  “No Violet here either!”  Then they heard a faint sound coming from the sofa, “Gurgle, gurgle.”  “Violet!” Mommy and Nana kneeled down at the same time and lifted the skirt at the bottom of the sofa and there smiling very happily was Violet, “Gurgle, gurgle”!   Everyone laughed, the sofa didn’t eat Violet, she just found a very snug hiding place!

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