The elephant upstairs

We used to have a family living above us, with a boy the same age as T-boy. Whenever he crawled, and then heavily walked, toddler-style, we'd hear thump thump thump across our ceiling.

C told T-boy the noise was a little elephant living upstairs. So then when we'd hear the thump thump thump, T-boy would cock his head to the side and say shhh, hear? P'tit l'elefant.

The family moved out above 18 months ago, and things became a little quieter. Now we have a student living upstairs... and sometimes, in the middle of the night, there's a new kind of thump thump thump.

The other day, apropos of nothing, T-boy said to me Yesternight I heard bomp bomp bomp and I said to myself, what's that? What's that, I said. Le little elephant is back?