The Besh Moments In Life

Given Besh’s love of musical theater, not at all due to Sara or myself, there was little doubt that he’d be interested in signing up for an afterschool program for toddlers where they learn to act, do puppets, and get to make a short movie over the semester. I told him about the program and I don’t think I finished the description before he wanted to sign up for it. So, having signed him up last week, I definitely felt the need to correct him during this conversation on Monday.

Besh: “Daddy, am I going to die?”

Me: “What? Why would you say that?”

“Because people die.”

“That’s true.”

“You know when you die you take one last deep breathe and then you die and then they bury you.”

“That’s right.”

“Like Jerry Orbach. They’re going to bury him.”

“Actually, he died a while ago and they already buried him.”

“Oh. Oh, that’s right. They put him on the screen and then they buried him.” (We have an old Broadway DVD with some Jerry Orbach moments that he likes to watch)

“That’s right, we have a movie of him.”

“How’d they do that?”

“They used a camera, just like the camera we use to take pictures of you. They had a camera and they took a video and put it through a computer and then it was a movie we could watch at home.”

“Oh, I want to do that. I’ll take a camera and then make a movie and then put it on the screen.”

“That sounds like fun.”

“Yeah. And then somebody gets to die.”