Flashback to the 1960s.
Remember Don Knotts as the bespectacled, mild-mannered bookkeeper who is so obsessed with fish that he longs to be one? After he falls off a pier and turns into an articulate aquatic animal, his life proves more exciting than mundane as he helps the US Navy defeat the Nazis during WWII.
My nephew Zhak is not an incredible limpet nor does he sport fins or gills, and I seriously doubt that at the tender age of "plain five" he’s going to be the latest secret weapon of our naval forces. But he definitely would live in the water if we let him. He’s in his second year of Saturday morning lessons and, well, swimming like a fish! The only style I’ve ever managed to master is the dog paddle, but I know it won’t be long before Zhak is front crawling, breaststroking and butterflying his way through waters of all kind.
Henry Limpet was ultimately transformed into a tilefish. Zhak is just as animated, but I’m thinking he more aptly resembles a clownfish!
2 comments:
Oh my gosh! Look at that face! How can you not love that face?!!
Actually he' only on his second lesson (not year)but he sure loved it. I would discribe him as a clownfish also (though I'm sure he'd tell you he was a hammerhead shark) which is his very favorite fish!
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