[A repeat from November 27, 2011]  When our daughter Lauren was little, Donna and I would often need to find things to keep her occupied while driving in the car or sitting in a restaurant.   One evening while having dinner in a Greek restaurant in Evanston, Lauren was getting bored soooo I took my right hand and – using my fingers as “feet” – began walking my hand toward her.  Well she squealed with delight.  And of course the hand walked up her arm over her head and down the other side.  Big smiles.  🙂  Big laughs.  🙂

After a while, I got the other hand into play.  Where the right hand was light and quick, the left hand was slow, lumbering and ponderous.  And heavy.  My index fingers would be raised to serve as “heads” of the two critters.   And so, “Fasty and Slowy” were born.  Fasty was nimble and danced lightly over the table and all over Lauren (and even bouncing on top of Slowy) while Slowy plodded along.  Slowly.  Heavily.  And when Slowy stepped onto our daughter’s hand, he was . . .well, heavy.  Lauren thought it was hysterical!   And so Fasty and Slowy were regular visitors from then on. 

Fasty and slowy have been in hibernation for quite a few years.  But I have a feeling that pretty soon they’ll be making a reappearance. . . . 

Postscript – Fasty and Slowy did make a comeback with the arrival of my granddaughters. At this point – for the most part – they are back in hibernation. . . . .