"You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!"

Do you know the movie, The Christmas Story? If not, you need to watch it. It may be one of my favorite movies. The kid wants a rifle, the mom does not. One of the key lines in rebuttal of the shotgun (is a rifle a shotgun?) is "You'll shoot your eye out!" That line went through my head today, as Z, with practiced and steady hand, raised his pistle, aimed....

and peed in his eye.

At least he was sitting on the potty, instead of peeing in his pants.

Progress.

More Wise Words from Z

If you click on this picture, you can better see the really obnoxious bells that Z insists he have velcroed to his ankles lately.


We were playing a dinner-time game. We call it "What is..." I say, "What is something you eat that is yellow?" They answer "A bamama!" (They still can't get that word right.) I say, "What is big, brown, and round?"

A silent pause, and then Z shouts out the answer:

"You are, mama!", (pride-filled smile on his face for getting it "right".) My intended answer was the table, but...hey.

I must've eaten too many biscuits in the UK.

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People tell me that I have my own accent. I say "cue" instead of "cute", and "boo" instead of "boot". In general, I drop the t on words that end in t. Keep that in mind in the following conversation:
"Z, do you want mea(t) plain or on a sandwich?"
Z, with a very confused look, answered, "Um, I want you on a sandwich, mama?"

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Our kids received a book (and an audio tape of the book) from our dear Scottish friend, Gilly. The book is read with a Scottish accent.
Today, I heard Z saying, "Nobody loves me at all." in a wee Scottish accent, just like the "grim and dark" fox in the book. This is probably only cute if you can hear it. Maybe I can tape it. How does a three-year-old imitate the Scottish accent better than his mom?
Granted, I suck, and most Scottish people would say I sound like I am from India.

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While watching mama frying eggs, Z asks "What we eatin', mama?"
Me, a little annoyed at the questions he knows the answer to, "Honey, we are eating eggs. Can you see the egg container there?"
"Oh, there's 'sposed to be chickens in there! We eatin' chicken?"

I guess he didn't know the answer to that one. woops.

Hats and Treats

Today, Z flung his hat off onto the snowy ground. I quickly returned it to his bare head, and said, "You need to wear a hat. Grandma will have a hairy conniption."
"Oh." said Z.

Ten minutes later, on the way to G'ma's.
"Mama? What's a hair conniption?"

I think it's amazing he even remembered those words, let alone that he was probably reviewing his memory bank to see if he had those words in there before finally asking their definition. I am too lazy to think like that. I would've googled it long before ten minutes was up.
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We are potty-training, as you know.
Me: "Do you know why you aren't getting a treat, S? It is because you weren't dry. You need to stay dry to get a treat."
S: (feeling her dry arm), "I AM dry, mama!"
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Me: "S, you didn't get a treat, because you weren't dry."
S: (chewing candy that she begged off of Z), "Mama, I got candy, and I didn't go on the potty."
I kind of felt like shaking the candy out of her at this point.
But I know....never, never, never shake a baby (toddler, little girl, daughter)!
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S: (after finally getting a treat), "Mama! I picked the wrong one! Can I have another one? This one is yucky! I need another one!" (I didn't let her pick another one, but by the next time, she picked the same kind again and was happy with how it tasted. hmmm.)

Trip

I feel like I should talk about my trip to Ireland and Scotland. I'm just not sure how to describe it in words that will matter to you. Tourism never sounds as good on paper. And besides, I always care more about hanging around with the people I'm with than actually visiting certain tourist attractions, but I'll try with a few sentences. Note: I couldn't get the pics to line up with my comments, so you'll just have to guess what pics are illustrating what. Hint: the pic of Stevie holding the wine on his shoulder would go with the comment stating "Scottish people are good at balancing wine on their shoulder", and so on. :)

1. Ireland and Scotland have sinks with both Hot and Cold faucets. I couldn't figure out how to wash without scalding myself every time...unless I opted for the Cold, which I never learned to do.
2. Both countries hang dry their clothes WAY more than we ever do. Some (maybe most?) people don't have dryers at all.
3. We ate fish and chips with malt vinegar and fried pizza.
4. Every house you go to offers you tea and biscuits (which are really candy bars with a healthier name), and their chocolate is better.
4. We went to a cute village called Perth and to a big, ol' natural amazement called the Giant's Causeway.

5. I talked and talked (and chatted and discussed and "blethered") all day every day for 10 days straight (and most nights till 2ish am).
6. I cried alot. It is amazing to me to find people across the world who can share such similar experiences as ourselves. Amazing and really emotional. The results of such a find? Sobbing cries and hard laughter in a short matter of minutes. Maybe that was because of the Scottish wine; I don't know.


7. Scottish people are good at balancing wine on their shoulders!

8. Scottish people are better at cutting hair. :)
9. Scottish people have really, really beautiful kids.

I am thankful for this trip. It was good.