Sometimes we do really interesting things in our family…
Sometimes we come up with our own ideas and sometimes we get them out of a book…
Sometimes, Daddy pulls out his childhood electronics kit so that we can do these things…
Sometimes, it involves turning potatoes into batteries…
And sometimes…
… just sometimes…
… it is an epic fail.
Me: Do you want me to sing you a song? How about ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’?
Jos: No winkle winkle, want Pop.
Me: You want a song about Pop?
Jos: Yeah
Me: Oh, I don’t really know any songs about Pop. I do know ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’, well the tune and the last line anyway, will that do?
Jos: Yes
Brief interlude of me whistling the tune and then singing ‘Pop goes the weasel’ several times.
Jos: Now Nan goes the weasel!
Most of these posts of late have been me going through the photos and telling stories from them.
But I have some memories I’d like to record, and they’re pictureless at the moment.
In the week following his birthday Elisha discovered that he had a wobbly tooth. He has been waiting and waiting for his teeth to start falling out, and he is beyond excited. He is constantly wiggling it trying to get it to come out. At one point he said to me, “Everyone in my family knows that I have a wobbly tooth, but not many other people know, but soon everyone will know.” And boy, do they! He even told his class for news today.
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During the holidays I took the kids around to mum and dad’s a couple of times. On one occassion my dad, who’d had a tooth removed by the dentist the day before, was showing of his battle wounds to Cayley. She was appalled. Then he waggled his false teeth at her. Horrified. He then moved on to give the performance to Jos. I was talking to Mum and watching Cayley out of the corner of my eye; as Dad was giving Jos the show, she was backing away from him into a corner, and yet not taking her eyes off him.
And then, his false teeth fell out.
And Cayley fell over backwards. She got such a fright!
It was hilarious. I still laugh thinking about it now.
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I know that there were more stories than that to tell, but my mind has gone completely blank. Guess I’ll be leaving it ’til another time.