All the single llamas

We haven't yet had the pleasure of reading all the books in the Llama Llama series by Anna Dewdney four thousand times each, so I could be wrong on this theory, but I am pretty sure we are watching a single llama parent-child dynamic unfolding in these stories. In Llama Llama Mad at Mama, we are treated to a Saturday shopping trip with the Llama duo and the inevitable llama drama that results.

I am confident that Ms. Llama is a single, working llama for the simple reason that no co-parenting llama would bring her offspring to Shop-O-Rama on a weekend by choice. As a stay-at-home llama, I do my Shop-O-Rama shopping with my little llamas (if I even have to take them) on weekday mornings when I don't have to navigate crowds on top of potential llama drama from my children. But it's Saturday morning and Ms. Llama knows the applesauce squeezers, which are the only fruit Baby Llama is eating without bitching these days, are running low, and even though Ms. Llama would way rather make herself a Bloody Mary and watch Baby Llama enjoy his blocks and puzzles, there is no rest for the single llama.

I used to get kind of pissed off at Ms. Llama for rewarding Baby Llama's shopping cart party with the promised ice cream cone afterwards anyway, but now I'm okay with it. Ms. Llama probably doesn't get a whole lot of opportunity to just kick it with her kid and do something for the pure joy of it. So go enjoy ice cream with your newly-shoed llama dude. You deserve some fun, you hard-working single llama!