Return to: BabyworldHi everyone Well, I'm back after a short hiatus. It's just been so hectic - Felix is taking up a lot more of my time - the incessant playing, prodding, wrenching, squeezing, stomping..... Felix and I constructed a Bathurst version of the television show "Gladiators" in our front room - we call it the Pyramid of Doom. It involves taking all the cushions off two lounges, grabbing some pillows, doonas etc. and then jumping on and running up and down the huge pile. If you get to the top you shout out that you're the king of the pyramid, although I sometimes also shout that out from the bottom (or whilst parading around the house). Television has also been good to me over the past few weeks. I especially like catching up on Buffy since the early episodes (which are now being shown) were aired before I was born and consequently, I haven't been able to properly understand the delicate interactions, tensions and parley between Xander, Willow, Giles, Angel and Buffy (can't wait to get introduced to Ossie and see Xander as a soldier). I have also enjoyed the BBC Dinosaur show. I tried to talk the whole way through it, but daddy kept asking mummy "what was that?" so I ended up just having to sit and watch whilst daddy made comments like - "why would that dinodog take its bedding out of its lair? Surely, it will attract predators!" And surely it did even though daddy had already spoilt the little twist. Felix has started watching Teletubbies - it now feels like he's one of us. I've also been spending quite a bit of time on the computer. I can now turn it on myself, load CD's - music or games - and can even print. I tell daddy that I'm doing my homework when he says it's time for me to go to bed. Felix and I went to our first McDonalds party on the weekend. It was strange because if you took away all the kiddies, it was the same as going to McDonalds on a Thursday (except that you got multi-coloured ice-cream cake rather than a sundae). I felt strangely unfulfilled. So, the best thing I thought to do was to get the balloons on sticks and start up some balloon wars. Daddy helped out by attaching balloons to both ends of my stick so that I could be Darth Maul the Balloon Slayer. Almost finished the Hobbit for the second time around. It will either be Lord of the Rings for the second time as well or perhaps Grimm's Fairy Tales - daddy got nanny to get the original version after he read me some fairy tales where: . the witch lived happily ever after with Hansel and Gretel; . the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood merely falsely imprisons the grandmother and later escapes and . the little gingerbread boy lives to run about another day. It was always interesting listening to daddy's versions though - I especially liked: . the little gingerbread axe wielding boy; . Hansel, Gretel and their second cousin Ruprecht; . the three ravenous bears with a taste for human flesh and . his version of three little pigs where the wolf cries "Little piggies, little piggies, I want to finger your entrails" (I especially liked his twist where all three piggies escaped the evil wolf by constructing a nuclear bomb shelter and locking the door although unfortunately they forgot to punch air holes in the door). Felix and I got our first wading pool last week. Felix especially likes being dunked. I especially like filling it with rubble from daddy's "renovations" (he's knocked over walls, cut doors in walls, dismantled part of the verandah and is now building a retaining wall before the house starts moving down the hill). Unfortunately, I managed to cut my finger on daddy's rubble and had to have a band-aid. Mummy became concerned when I wouldn't allow her to later remove the band-aid. I had to carefully explain that a band-aid is permanent. Probably the most interesting thing I have done over the past month is do a wee at Church. Now, you would think that there is nothing special about that - in fact I do them quite regularly. But there was a real buzz about this one wee.... Everyone was having morning tea on the warm Sunday morning. There was a large pool of water next to where everyone was quaffing and I just got the urge to disturb its tranquil waters. So I dropped my pants and became relieved. I was quite surprised when everyone then turned, pointed and laughed. All I can say is that I'm glad they enjoyed something that I feel that I'm quite good at. They asked daddy where I might have picked up my skill and he replied that I was probably just copying him. Let me assure everyone that my special skill is innate. Until next time Elliot
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