Just as I was leaving the house for work, Ethan called me back: “Dad, ghosts are invincible because ghosts are invisible”.
Permanently Astonished.
Who wouldn’t be.
“Who ARE these people?”
“What do they want from me?” …
‘WHO IS THAT BIG HAIRY GUY?”
peek a BOO
don’t treat me like such a mammal.
Ethan has been coining new phrases every day lately. As I reported here, one recent smash hit has been “it’s a wobbly planet”. We find this expression has a hundred and one uses around the home. Yesterday, a new one: “Dont treat me like such a mammal, Dad!”
A hundred expressions a minute
An enormous caterpillar!
The wild, wonderful, generous and impulsive Linda and Dianne sent us a treasure trove of gifts today all the way from Gloucester, Massachusetts, including a furry caterpillar 7 feet long, “Juggling for Complete Klutzses (for me!), a dress enrirely covered in watermelons, pears, lemons and cherries and the most luxuriant bathrobe you have every seen. There’s more stuff in there we haven’t even glimpsed yet. I don’t know how they got such a huge box of unexpected pleasure over here so fast.
We were exhausted after a bad night with Lucinda, and then had this most excellent surprise. Thanks, guys.
Home again home again, jiggety – jig
The Sniff Test
We have a tradition in this house: when the new baby comes home, we place her on the floor on a cushion and Eric Biggles gets to sniff the infant for a minute before anything else happens. It’s only fair: Eric has after all looked after Fiona throughout the pregnancy, and nearly went out of his doggy mind toward the end, nervously following her from room to room for the final week.
As you can see, Eric is more enthusiastic about the encounter than Audrey, although I think it went quite well overall: there was no slobbery face licking, and no eye scratching. She’s thinking: “hmm, your breath isn’t so great …”
First Bath
Ethan & Lucinda had cuddles
.. and helped bathe Audrey
… I think Lucinda figured out where babies come from!
