Posts By Duncan Drennan
The Monkey and The Mouse
Grace has had her monkey for quite a while now and she is still very attached to him. Eli has become attached to his “Mouse” (who is really a lion), and that is now his sleep toy. Even Adam has his little bear lovie that he likes to hold at night.
But what happens when you leave your Monkey and Mouse lying around the house?
Bite them, shake them, squeeze them!
Donné shows this photo to Grace and says, “See what happens when you leave Monkey lying around?” Grace goes into instant meltdown, “Now Monkey has been destroyed, and Susan has swept him up and thrown him away!” At least she didn’t overreact.
The same, just not quite
Grace says to Donné today, “Janpaul and I had a discussion about our friendship today and decided that we are similar, but not congruent.”
Donné asks, “What exactly do you mean by congruent?” to which she responds, “Well, I can’t really explain it, I just have a feeling of what it means…..not the same.”
Mr Happy loves to check out the accessories
Walking!
Over the past week and a half or so Adam has taken his first steps, and has been doing a two or three step shuffle transferring between things. But, in my words, “It’s not real until it’s on YouTube,” so we finally got the video today…
Teeth brushing
Adam has now joined the ranks of the toothbrushing elite.
Water pressure
What better way to figure it out than by practical experience
Gog
Adam is starting to say more words, and his current favourite is “gog!” (for dog). He also says “book” sometimes, and in his vocab a cat is “coco”. Donné says, “He seems so much more intelligent because he can speak earlier than the other two.” 🙂
Halloween the First
Last year, just after Adam was born Grace wanted to do Halloween and Donné promised her that next year (i.e. this year) we would do Halloween, so we were committed.
Grace wrote a note and we went to all our neighbours to ask them if they would like to join in with the fun, and many of them did.
Eli wanted to go as a pumpkin, so we made a paper mache pumpkin head.
The MacRoberts and the van der Zee’s joined in with our street’s fun – Oliver & Finn as ghosts with alien heads (Ollie didn’t want to accept my proposal that he was going as a dead alien), Gemma the witch, Bat-Ian, and Grace the Ghost.
We asked those who wanted to participate to put up a ribbon or balloon, so we added some to our gate
The neighbours were amazing, with lots of the other children joining us, and some going to the effort of dressing up and doing up their houses.
Some of the neighbourhood ghouls
Time to partake in the gathered goods
Things learned making costumes:
- The ability to see seems to be quite important – both Grace and Eli had issues with the restrictions in vision
- Think about how it is going to stay on his head – that well crafted pumpkin shape isn’t really well moulded to the shape of a head.
The kids and neighbourhood all had lots of fun, and I can see this becoming a bigger thing in our street as time goes on.
The reason you can’t sleep next to a baby…
…is because they take up all of the space.
