I knew I was in for trouble when I asked the question – but this is what happened today…

Today, I was in a class where one of the little girls asked how old I was when I started Big Ryan’s Tall Tales.  I said “Well, let me ask you this: How old do you think I am now?”

First answer: 63 (Ouch!)

Next answer: 50 (Wow…)

Next answer: 29 (My new best friend)

 

This message was left for me on my facebook from one of the parents whose child came to my show and heard “George and the Loose Tooth”

 “Just thought you’d like to know that Adam “lost his last baby tooth” this morning!! (and “it’s invisible!”) LOL!!!”

Darn those invisible teeth!  They are so hard to find!

 

Right after my show the other day one of the boys in the front said this:

“You’re my favorite!  Well, Uncle Charlie is my favorite – but you are my second favorite!”

 I am always being upstaged by him!

 

As the Trick-or-Treaters came and went last night there was one who was very memorable.  He came up to the door dressed as Iron Man, like MANY children were this year, and he stopped about two steps in front of my door.  I opened and said “Hi”.  He turned to his mother and said “Mom!  He’s dressed as Big Ryan!”

I’ve got to admit, that WOULD be a great costume! 

 

I was doing the “Popsicle Song” with the kids and teachers of Pre-School Playmates in Bridgewater – when one of the kids said he wanted a “letter” popsicle.

I said: “Which Letter would you like?  Which is your favorite letter?”

He raised his hand and shouted “5!”

 

I was visiting a school – celebrating thier “end of the year”.  When I sat down to start the show one of the boys in the front asked “Who is that?”

 A little girl next to him said “That’s Big Ryan, Goofy!”

Made me laugh…

 

I finished a show today and one little girl in the front shouted out:

 “Do you want to know my phone-number?”

 Sadly, she got the biggest laugh of the entire performance…

 

I was in an ice cream shop – when a family came in and recognized me… well, the Mother and Father recognized me.  They said “Hey, look who’s here?” but the children looked at me and didn’t know.  Then the Mother said “Well, he has 2 hands, ten fingers… but what is missing?”

Her child shot back with “His thumbs?”

She was eluding to my puppet friends – but I thought his answer was way better!

 

I was finishing my story “The Great Carrot Disaster” and in the end the farmer asks the children a few questions.  The first he asks is “If I gave my bunny an orange and a carrot, which would my bunny like to eat?”

And the kids respond with “The carrot”

Then I ask “If I gave my horse an orange or a carrot, which would my horse like to eat?”

And one of the little girls in the front shouted out “Apple!”

 

After I finished with my Kindregarten show today the teacher asked the class if they liked the show.  One of the kids responded with:

“Like it!  I wanna marry it!”

 So, I guess he liked it…