AT G'S HOUSE: Once upon a What??

So G loves fairy tales, and was one day telling her captive audience, Gunner and Duncan, about the Three Little Pigs.

http://www.read.gov/books/pageturner/
2003juv81093/#page/2/mode/2up

You know the story...there were these 3 pigs and a Big Bad Wolf, and the first pig built his house out of straw which the wolf immediately blew down, etc. etc.

Great story with the moral of "Don't take any shortcuts when building a wolf-proof house" or something like that.

Duncan got into the story, helped G tell it ("I'll huff and I'll puff..."), and loved it.

This motivated G, and she de-terrorized the story by having each little pig move in with the next when his house was destroyed by the wolf until the little pig in the brick house takes care of the wolf for good. (In G's version, that translates as "The wolf climbs down the chimney of the brick house and catches his tail on fire, which propels him back up the chimney, and he runs away to put out his tail in the ocean.") Nobody dies in G's version.

Telling fairy tales, one child beside her and one child on her lap...a classic scene in the proverbial Granny and Grandchild playbook! Balm to a Granny's heart.

[Gunner tolerated the first story about the pigs, but part way into the next story said he was going upstairs to play with the trains and off he went.]

And G, having a captive audience in Duncan proceeded to tell the next tale about the little boy who lost his new clothes to the tigers in the jungle.

Fast forward to about 3 days later. G gets a text from the children's mother...

"So, Duncan just told us a story of 3 little birds. One built his house with wood. One built his house with binoculars and one with cups. Random. The other story was 3 dinosaurs who ran to the house made of grass and the wolf got his head caught in the grass when he tried to eat them because the grass was sticky with suckers. Then the dinosaurs all grabbed guns and shot him."