elent evaporates

E – e – e, what begins with E?

I’d barely noted that Jonah had been hanging on to his own personal interpretation of the pronounciation of elephant when…

Today he was holding up his swim trunks, the orange ones with the animals all over, and he pointed and said, with absolutely perfect clarity, “There’s a ELEPHANT.”

Scott and I locked eyes over his head, in simultaneous shock.

There it is. Or wasn’t.

Elent, gone.