Morning Humming

Madeleine used to draw invisible circles in the air while she drank her sippy cup of milk.  I don't know what added level of comfort it brought her to do this, but it was an incredibly endearing thing to behold. 

Now that she drinks milk from regular cups, Madeleine no longer draws her air circles.  However, she has developed a new comforting custom while consuming breakfast.  She hums while she eats.  It started off as just a sort of meandering hum that had no real tune, but nowadays it's full-out Dark Crystal humming.  EVERY.  MORNING.  while Madeleine eats her breafkast, she hums the tune "Speak for the Dead" from the Netflix "Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" series. 

Not only does this make it take forever for Madeleine to consume her breakfast, but it makes for some interesting sound effects that are NOT DISTRACTING AT ALL.

MADELEINE: (putting a handful of dried cereal into her mouth) Hmmmm, hmmm hmmmm hmmm (smacking sounds) hmmm hmmmm, Hmmmm (chomping sounds) hmmmm hmmmmm (smack chomp smack chomp)

Ethan especially loves this new phase of Madeleine's.

This morning, Madeleine is putting me to a Dark Crystal "would you rather" sort of game.

MADELEINE: Mommy.  Who do you like better.  Kira or Brea?
ME: Um...I guess Brea.
MADELEINE: Kira or Deet?
ME: Deet.
MADELEINE: Kira or Tavra?
ME: Um.  Tie.
MADELEINE: Kira or Celedon?
ME: Kira.
MADELEINE: Kira or Skek-so?
ME: Kira.


This continued for many more minutes.  I was asked to rate Kira against every single Skekse character, as well as against every Gelfling in the movie. 

There is nothing I'd rather do while drinking my morning coffee than compare a Gelfling from the original "Dark Crystal" movie against EVERY OTHER CHARACTER from the Netflix series.  I didn't want to read anything while I enjoyed my coffee.  I totally just wanted to rank Dark Crystal characters.

Now Madeleine is overcome with inspiration to make a poster so that's what we're doing before we head out for school.  Who even knows what this poster is going to be for.