Whither Earthlings

[Today is Allie’s birthday. She usually asks to hear her birth story at some point, and I was about halfway through, when…]

I really love my Origin Story.

Oh! It has a happy dancing dog on it. [Opens card – it plays Vince Guaraldi’s “Linus and Lucy”]

Apparently, it also sings.

How does it work? [Wrestles open the flap a bit and points to the microchip]

WHAT IS THAT? HOW DOES IT WORK?