The army of bionicles and its echos of Will’s play chatter in his fake deep bionicle voice (“surrender, you!”) stand on my dainty floral table cloth and remind me once again how grateful I am to Will for bringing all of his boy-ness into my life.
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Will and I read the first chapter of Winnie the Pooh on the ipad tonight and it was so much fun that I went looking for other ipad chapter-books-but-still-have-pictures books. Because I need a break from “The Dancing Bears” (The Berenstein Bears). I remembered Junie B Jones, and got Junie B Jones and a Little Monkey Business, which I remembered as being hysterical. Except it made Will cry. Because she referred to her fetus of a baby sibling as a ‘dumb bunny baby’ and said ‘i don’t think I’m going to like this dumb baby’ and ‘I don’t know its stupid dumb name’ and ‘I’m going to be the boss of this baby’ and after having a little meltdown and informing me that he did NOT like “your mean words book” he agree that we could continue reading, but only if “you promise not to read the mean words and only the nice words.” Will does not take the verbal abuse of babies lightly. I don’t think his sense of humor is really up to the task of the Junie B series. (He’s also baffled by “The Book and Movie Eloise.” He asked me this morning randomly “Is the Movie and Book Eloise…good?”) Our guild is doing a swap today, and the theme was a spring mug rug. I’m in love with this gnome fabric, and hope my partner is, too!
When I lived in England we had about 70 other American families living in our cluster of towns that were all there working for Boeing, too. We had an ongoing prank with one of the families wherin we would leave a garden gnome on each other’s front step. Initially, he was dressed as just himself, but as time went on he got dressed up. In the tradition, you could only ADD to his costume, not take anything off, and I’m pretty sure at the very end he had to be a ghost with just a white sheet over him for Halloween, and then I’m pretty sure we ended up coloring the sheet green and adding a star for a Christmas tree, but that might also just have been brainstormin. In June it will be 10 years since I left, so my memories are going! Anyway…ever since our ‘gnoming’ escapades, the sight of a garden gnome never fails to make me smile.
Will and Ellie’s interactions are the highlight of my LIFE. Here are just a few examples of them being them right now: Will is having a ‘slumber party’ in our room as his Friday night treat. This is something Nic invented. He stays in his room Sat-Thurs but gets to sleep in our room on Fridays. All week long he has talked about his slumber party and planned the little spot that Ellie would sleep in, too. I kept telling him that it was just him, but he repeated his requests for a little bed with blankets and a teddy bear for Eloise so she won’t have nightmares. (He almost always calls her Eloise, not Ellie.) Ellie screams when we leave Will at school. She loves picking him up, but if we walk up to school with him and just up and abandon him?! Not okay with her. When we were at Target earlier this week I was gushing over a set of girly flowery Shabby Chic sheets. So pretty with tiny little flower buds. I told Ellie that when she gets older she will have a bed with pretty sheets just like that. And Will said “No she won’t! She will be in my Star Wars bed with me when she is a big girl!” Will and Ellie were playing together this afternoon when Ellie got hurt. She cried, and as I held and hugged her and chastised Will for playing too carelessly with her, he was on the verge of tears. He just kept saying “I’m sorry Eloise!” and as he tried to hug her, she pushed him away. That tipped him over and he started sobbing. Ellie stopped crying, looked and him, and then reached for him and gave him hug after hug, snuggling her head into his chest. Forgiven. Ellie slept through the night last night. YEAH SHE DID! 7pm-6:45am. An hour earlier than she usually wakes up, but I WILL TAKE IT!!!!! (Oh, and usually when Ellie sleeps well the universe makes sure that Will doesn’t, but he hasn’t woken us up or snuck into our bed at all this week! I am going to be a very well rested woman soon!) |
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Fran - Super duper cute! Sarah Black would love this!
Natalie - This is adorable! I love the little mushroom 🙂
Kristie at OCD - Very cute! Love the gnome fabric as well! And great memory.
Nancy - What a great gnome memory! I have a soft spot for gnomes – they are one of my favorites!
Pam Carlson - Dear Traci
This may sound weird, but during the ’50’s, my mom had a best friend named Trudy Turchin. We are from Chicago, and I believe in the early 60’s, Trudy got married and moved to Australia. I believe she had 2 kids..anyway,I was very young when all of this was going on. My mother has since passed away, many years ago, but I always wonder about Trudy…which brings me to you. Are you in any way related to this woman? I loved her dearly as a child and would love to know if she is still alive and what happened with her life. If you have any insight and can give me any info, I would so appreciate it. I’m 61 yrs old now and this part of my life meant a great deal to me. Thank you for anything you can tell me!
Pam Carlson
baddoggy99@sbcglobal.net
Greenstylemom - You are so creative. And I’m loving my chicken! Makes me smile every time I see it.