Puh-prise!!!

Maddie with face gleaming and a smile from ear to ear, "Ben, I have a puh-prise for you!" She walks into kitchen and jumps up once landing squarely on her feet in front of him in a big show of **TA DUH** spreading her arms out as she unveils her big and fantastic surprise, "It's just me in a ballerina costume!!! See!!!" Her eyes light up as she contemplates the amazing surprise she has just revealed to the world and the anticipated rounds of applause and cheering that will now ensue. Ben looks up from his project at the kitchen table making a garbage truck out of an old 12 pack soda can box. He moves his eyeballs just enough to see her over the top rim of his glasses but not shifting his head position at all. He comments, "That's not a very good surprise, Maddie," and returns to his work again unimpressed. Well Maddie, them's the breaks I guess. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And Ben isn't beholding it today.