Two nights ago Maddy walked into the living room after we had already put her to bed and stared at us with a crazy look on her face. “There are deer outside my window” she said with an odd smile/smirk on her face. It was the kind of face that she normally makes when saying something like “there’s a monkey that lives under my bed” or “Daddy, my toots smell like butterflies”, so I was fairly certain there were no deer outside her window as I walked her back to her bedroom. Once in her room and I looked out her window to find not one but four deer standing around outside. No doubt they were there to feast on the food left by our neighbor, the bird-lady (another story for another time), but still it was a surprise to see them…and I was amazed that Maddy looked outside at just the right moment to know they were there.
So last night Maddy get up in the middle of the night again, this time at 1:00 AM to use the bathroom. She’s didn’t want to go back to her bed, so I let her sleep on the couch for about 30 minutes before Jill put her back in her own room. As Jill enters Maddy’s bedroom, Maddy is in that zombie stage somewhere between asleep and awake. She stirs a bit and points at the window (where the blinds are closed and the curtains are pulled shut) and says “There’s already a deer outside my window”.
Jill looks, and sure enough there is a single deer standing outside the window. “Oh yeah…you’re right” she replies to Maddy, still trying to figure out how on earth she knew there was a deer out there.
“I looked out and saw it, and I saw a wolf howling,” says Maddy. “You know why wolves howl? To warn other animals of danger. They get up on the top of a mountain and go like this…”
At this point the zombie Maddy lets out a loud howl.
Then the zombie/deer whisperer Maddy continues…”I learned how to talk to dogs. At school they said that you blow a whistle to talk to dogs.”
Then she told Jill that she loved her and instantly fell asleep.
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my toots smell like butterflies?! hilarious!
What the heck are deer doing in Andover?!