About 4 years ago we bought each of our twin little girls a Rody Pony (see 
picture at right) at a clearance sale. They have enjoyed them so much.
We’ve never called them Rody though. Our son (6 at the time) decided that they were “llamas.”
They’ve played an important role in our family. Last year my son broke his arm trying to avoid this particular “llama” when jumping off of a swing. Imagine the ER personnel trying to understand how he broke his arm because of the black llama with yellow spots. They kept asking me if he had hit his head.
Tonight the kids were playing outside, and my son picked up the ‘llama’ and threw it, yelling, “Demon Llama!**” Then I heard my 5 year old daughters little voice pipe up saying, as loud as she could yell, “My demon llama. Don’t pop my demon llama!” I wonder what the neighbors thought…
Children say the funniest things.
(**demon llama is a reference to a children’s movie called “The Emperor’s New Groove,” about an Emperor who was turned into a llama, and scared the peasant man who found him. The peasant man understandably thought the llama was possessed, and shouted “demon llama.” This is one of our all time favorite family movies. Of course, once you have to explain a joke, it is no longer funny.)
