Bronchitis, "Too Many Daves"

I have a bad case of bronchitis. I haven't taught seminary since Tuesday. Wednesday I went to the doctor and got Advair inhaler stuff. She said I wasn't contagious, she said I had lung inflammation which causes symptoms of asthma.

(Thursday) Today I have laryngitis. I babysat Elizabeth and Thomas for 2 hours. I pointed to my throat and whispered to Elizabeth that "my throat is broken, I can't talk." So for the whole two hours she kept asking me, "Your neck broken?".


Enough about my sickness. I want to put my very favorite Dr. Suess poem "Too Many Daves" on here. I think it is in the book "The Sneeches and Other Stories" by Dr. Suess. I've tried to memorize it, but never did completely. Maybe if it is on my blog, I can review it more often. I think Seth tried to memorize it too.

TOO MANY DAVES
By Dr. Suess

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out, “Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!” she doesn’t get one
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!

This makes things quite difficult at the McCave’s
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.

And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face.

And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.

And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate…
But she didn’t do it. And now it’s too late.

(Ooooh! I see a theme developing between this post and yesterday's. Did this poem influence Seth to want to name his kids Bucket and Toast, or does Seth like this poem BECAUSE he wanted to name his kids unusual names? Something to think about!)