Thursday, December 31, 2009

Lautje and his Friends

Like any young boy, Lautje has developed a few friendships with inanimate objects. Specifically, several of the Mommy and Daddy's stuffed animals. However much he loves on them and schmoozes on them, he also can be a bit rough on them. Consider, for instance, his friend Floppy, who is too big to ride on the Bobbycar with Lautje. Thus, Lautje has developed alternate forms of transportation for Floppy...
Unfortunately for Floppy, he's also to big to be carried throughout the apartment normally. The Mommy and Daddy are always hopeful that whoever made Floppy used extra stitching on his antlers...
And then there is George - Lautje's best friend, and constant companion (though the Mommy and Daddy draw the line at letting George in the bathtub with Lautje). George is never far away and frequently even gets his own chair.

Named after the Abominable Snowman's pet in the Bugs Bunny cartoon ("And I will hug him and kiss him and call him George..."), George leads a (more or less) charmed life. Though, occasionally, Lautje treats George in roughly the same manner as the Abominable Snowman treated poor Daffy and Bugs: that is to say, with so much love as to nearly destroy the poor bear.
Luckily for George, teddy bears don't have to breathe...