According to one of the teachers in Ernie's preschool, a profound event occurred on Friday surrounding Ernie. And though she seemed awed and impressed, she seemed also vaguely creeped out when describing it to Jeremy. When Jeremy described it to me, I envisioned full-on Village of the Damned, so this might be skewed in my telling. I am deriving my narritive from the teacher's re-telling and also an interview I had with Ernie.
Apparently Ernie was playing in the play kitchen with Anna when she accidentally slammed his finger in the freezer door. He got upset, so he crawled under the big round table. All the kids (14 of them, I think) then started to form this structure out of their bodies. Both the teacher and Ernie called it a "structure." And then they all called to Ernie that they needed his help to complete their structure. So Ernie crawled out from under the table, got up on the table top. The teacher said then he sighed really slowly, and Ernie said "I just breathed in like this . . . . and then breathed out like that," and then all the kids did the same heavy sigh after him simultaneously, then he entered the structure, and all was well.
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Not sure what to say after that... but I am a tad freaked out.
Wow. It's like Ernie has some sort of force field on his classmates. He's a puppeteer! I see politics in his future. :) Or dictatorship.
I don't think his classmates like seeing anybody sad - and the rest - a kiwinkydink.
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