That is Zombie David on the left, Zombie Ruby in the middle, which makes that Zombie Theo on the right.
When I was in Tacoma last summer I quickly learned how fond David, Theo and Ruby are about zombies.
My second day in Tacoma I found myself in a Tacoma community center where David, Theo and Ruby were taking some sort of immersive, intensive Lego oriented class.
I was never clear as to the Lego aspect of this class. But each day when we retrieved the kids from the Legos they were armed with multiple papers on which what looked to me like pixelated drawings, made with large pixels, which rendered images which to my eyes all looked the same.
However, when one of the kids, usually David or Theo, would show me an image and ask if I knew what it was the only time I was right was if I said it looked like a zombie. Like I said, all the images looked the same to me, but apparently some were non-zombies. Things like lions, tigers, bears and snakes.
Spending quality time with David, Theo and Ruby was the first time this century I have spent quality time with pre-teenage kids.
I had no idea so much has changed regarding a kid's world. I don't think zombies had been invented when I was a kid.
When I was a kid we had cartoons like the Flintstones, Popeye, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, the Mickey Mouse knock-off known as Mighty Mouse, the Jetsons, the Roadrunner, and others.
Each morning I was in Tacoma I joined David, Theo and Ruby for cartoon viewing. The cartoons seemed a bit disturbingly dystopian to my sensitive nature. Each morning we watched this one "cartoon" where we joined in a battle against evil monsters, helping a good guy superhero. At multiple points during the battle the good guy superhero would stop the action, turn to us and implore us to help with the spell he needed to cast to thwart the evil doer/
We were told to stand, to do this, to do that. When I just sat there watching in amused amazement, David, Theo and Ruby got upset, imploring me to join in with the effort to help the good guy superhero thwart the bad guy. And so I would find myself joining in with the casting of the spell.
I felt as if I had joined a cult.
And then there was Mindcraft, or Minecraft, or some such name. This was a video game played on Amazon Kindles. Played by David and Theo. An interactive game with their two Kindles connected via wi-fi.
My first morning in Tacoma I found myself caught between David and Theo in a Kindle battle caused by this aforementioned video game.
Suddenly Theo cried out that David had stolen one of his hearts. David did not deny the theft, quickly telling Theo it was his fault because Theo left his heart unprotected. Theo demanded David return his heart.
David then told Theo that he could not return Theo's stolen heart because he had already buried it in his Garden of Eternal Memories.
Theo accepted the futility of retrieving his stolen heart. And the game proceeded.
And then it happened again, with Theo crying out David had stolen another of his hearts. Again David told Theo it was Theo's fault for leaving his hearts unprotected.
I then found myself sucked into this bizarre world when I found myself saying to Theo that he had been warned by David to not leave his hearts unprotected. I then found myself imploring David if there was any way he could see his way clear to getting Theo's stolen hearts out of his Garden of Eternal Memories and returning them to his little brother.
David said it was possible, but it took a lot of effort and would require the acquisition of a variety of difficult to acquire magic spells and potions.
I walked away.
Happy Halloween, one and all, especially my favorite Zombies, David, Theo and Ruby...
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