When I am out and about in the world, people always mistake me for some monster named Cookie Monster. When I tell them that I am not Cookie Monster, I am Blueper B, they always seem a little disappointed. I finally had to figure out who this Cookie Monster monster is.
Mr. Guy helped me find a picture of the Cookie Monster on the Internet. He and I have the same color of fur and sort of the same eyes, but Cookie Monster does not have orange horns, or claws, or orange fur on his belly, or orange stripes on his arms. In fact, Mr. Cookie Monster doesn’t have anything orange on him. Why do people get us confused?
Mr. Guy said that sometimes people will lump all monsters with one similar characteristic into a big group even though they may be very different in lots of other ways. He said that this happens with humans too. I don’t think that this is a good thing. Every monster and every person is unique and special. Just because we may look like or be like another person on the outside doesn’t mean that we are like them on the inside too. We probably don’t like the same things, feel the same things, want the same things, or need the same things. I think people and monsters need to look more than fur-deep before they come to conclusions about others. I don’t look like Mr. Guy or The Lady, be we are all alike in lots of ways that others can’t see.
So, since i am always mistaken for this Cookie Monster monster, I decided to try to learn a little about him.
Wow! This Cookie Monster monster is famous! He has been on television for almost fifty years. And, he likes to eat, especially cookies. Cookie Monster is a lot older than me. I am only three. Yet, we still look a like. Does that mean that monsters don’t get gray fur or that their fur doesn’t fall out when they get older? Mr. Guy’s hair used to be brown and now it is gray. I have wondered what color my fur will be when I get as old as Mr. Guy. Will it be gray? Or purple? Or a darker or lighter blue? I don’t know. Now that I see Mr. Cookie Monster monster, I think that maybe my fur will stay blue and orange for ever and ever. That sounds good to me.
I told The Lady that I wanted to eat cookies so that I would know what it feels like to be Mr. Cookie Monster. She said that we could work on that because she had to make cookies today for her food blog, Sifted Together, that she writes with her friend Ms. Tracey. Ms. Tracey and The Lady send messages to each other about food all the time. They make the food, take pictures of it, eat it, and write about it on their blog. They are kind of like Mr. Cookie Monster, especially today since they were making cookies.
The Lady told me that we were going to make Animal Cookies. I wondered why we were making animal cookies. Why weren’t we making monster cookies or human cookies? The animals at our house did not ask for cookies. The Lady explained that animal cookies have nothing to do with who is going to eat them. They are called animal cookies because they are shaped like animals. Okay..I wondered how that was going to happen. We are going to make cookies shaped like animals? This could be interesting.
We began by gathering all of the ingredients.
We put them all together in the big blue mixing machine.
When we did that, the eight ingredients mushed together and became one big blob of ingredient. The Lady called it dough. When we got it all mixed up, we had to put it in the refrigerator to chill before we could make the animals. This was strange to me because we took the butter, one of the ingredients, out of the refrigerator first and we had to put it in the melting machine even though we didn’t want to melt it; we just wanted to make it a little soft. Then after we made our blob dough, we put it back in the refrigerator to make it cold. I did what The Lady told me to do, but it all didn’t make much sense to me.
After the dough got cold again, we took it out of the refrigerator and rolled it so it was one great big cookie. I bet Cookie Monster would really like our great big cookie! Then The Lady told me that we had to cut all of the little animal cookies out of our great big cookie using special plastic pieces with a button.
They worked like magic! I pushed it in the dough, pressed the button, and out feel a dough animal. We put them in the oven and they turned into animal cookies. We made lions, zebras, giraffes, and elephants!
Then we ate them!
I liked being Cookie Monster for a day, but I am most happy as me, Blueper B, a little furry blue and orange monster who is not on TV.