To catch y'all up, during the past few months, we've been camping on the Murray river in Echuca, the Bean has slammed his thumb in the car door (we patiently wait for the fingernail to fall off), he has lost two teeth, I have internally debated the tooth fairy/Santa Claus/Easter Bunny myth to no avail, we have toured the Sea Shepherd Boat - The Steve Irwin - currently docked at Williamstown, my parents celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary, I've been cooking, we've been gardening, the Bean has been bouncing, I've been working, he's been hating on kinder, he wants to grow up to be a Sea Shepherd and 'look after the whales and the dolphins and the ocean', we've made new friends, we've hung out, sang in the car, danced a lot to Jack White's album Blunderbuss, I turned 34, he's played a lot of rock 'n' roll drum beats, we're both into acupuncture, the Dragon cat's been loved and tormented in equal measure, we went to a concert to save the Kimberley, I made a blanket, he wrote his name very legibly - we laughed.
And on the 15th of August, he told me all about his day. He could remember it and he told me. I can't convey my excitement and pride.
That's it really.
But for what you've all been waiting for.....
Things The Bean has Said:
1.
TB: Finish the book.
Me: Don't you boss me, I just have to check on dinner
TB: No you need to finish it!
Me: I will in one second, what's more important? Dinner or the book?
TB: The book.
2. Sick 1 (After another winter of insane ear infection related temperatures.
Me: You might have to have an operation on your ears.
TB: Noooooooooooo! (tears)
Me: It's ok. Not right now, but the doctor said last night that it will make you not get so sick anymore.
TB: I didn't hear him say that.
3.
Me: You can have some if you want.
TB: Nah, it looks like it's just for adults.
Me: No food is just for adults, unless it's too spicy, I guess.
TB: I don't like spicy.
Me: You like hot sauce.
TB: That's 'cause it's hot, NOT spicy!
4. Sick 2
Me: This temperature of yours is making me crazy.
TB: Yeah, well it's making me feel like asteroids!
5.
TB: I know another way to go sleep with cats.
Me: Hmmm
TB: Yeah, it's a train with beds and toilets and it's like a hotel. They have cat beds. But it's not for dogs. Dogs are naughty, if people have a dog they can just leave them at home...... It's a train hotel for cats.
6. Sick 3 - after a week of both of us sick.
Me: I'm bored.
TB: Really?
Me: Yup. I'm pretty bored of this place.
TB: All of it?
Me: Yeah.
TB: All right, I'll turn the lights on then.
7. Singing songs.
Me: What was that song about?
TB: It was about a girl that was walking her dog and the dog was woofing... And it could hear her heart.
8.
Me: Do you want lettuce on your burger?
TB: Um no. I'm not interested in lettuce.
9.
Me: Look at your head. I might just chop it off so I can put it on my desk and look at your face ALL day.
TB: Ughhhh.. Grrr.
Me: What?
TB: I don't like heads chopped off.
Me: I was only joking.
TB: It's not a joke.
Me: ehehe. Why don't you want me to chop your head off?
TB: I hate heads off, it means I can't talk anymore.
10. Daylight savings.
Me: It's time for bed.
TB: No it's not time yet.
Me: I'm the boss, it's bed time.
TB: The sun is the boss. It is the boss and if the sun says it's night time we go to bed and if it says it's day time we get up and have some breakfast.
11.
TB: This jelly fish and these eels eat fried eggs on toast for dinner.
12.
TB: Are you gonna learn how to make bread?
Me: Hmm I dunno, why?
TB: Because if you learn how to make bread then you'll be a master chef.
13.
TB: Do you know why I don't like cheese mixed up into my spaghetti?
Me: Why?
TB: Because it's a bit lah di dah.
14. Dad was making a shopping list to get stuff to make my birthday dinner.
TB: Papa, it's Mama's birthday, so we have to buy everything.
15.
TB: When your toys are everywhere your room is a mess of toys, but when I put my toys away my room is a mess of clean!
16. Bean baby pics on the computer screen saver
TB: Hahahaha, Mama, that's when I didn't know that gravity pushes us down.
17.
TB: So all the people that we know and that we don't make up all the people in the world.
Me: Yeah.
TB: So your bones make your and my bones make me and all the other people's bones make them... And do you know what else is red and makes us?
Me: What?
TB: Blood.
18. :o( All grow'ed up!
TB: But I don't need kisses and cuddles every day.
Me: But mamas are supposed to kiss and cuddle their babies every day.
TB: Yeah babies. I'm not a baby. I'm a kid.
19. Self Proclamation 1
TB: Mama, I'm utterly unique.
20.
TB: Can I see my new friends tomorrow?
Me: Nah not tomorrow, but next week. Your new friends are cool huh?
TB: Yeah, I like Leon and Tyler. Tyler has a nice face... And a cool jacket.
21. Self Proclamation 2
TB: Mama, I've got soul.
21. Camping Preparation 1
Me: If it's going to be raining like this we're not going to go to Wilson's Prom, we're might go to the Murray instead. It's a big river but don't worry there's lots of sky so we can look at the stars in the binoculars.
TB: The sky is everywhere, Mama.
22. Meltdown tears.
TB: Sometimes we have to deal with stuff when things change.
Me: Yeah, but it's ok, things change a lot honey, it's just the world.
TB: I don't like the world.
23. Camping Preparation 2
Me: When we go camping there'll be lots of bush around to go walking,
TB: And we can go on adventures and go investigating and when we get hungry for meat we'll go hunting.
Me: Hahahah, I'm not going hunting.
TB: Yeah, we'll just hunt dead animals.
Me: You don't hunt dead animals, you have to hunt live animals and kill them to eat them. Are you gonna kill the animals?
TB: Um, yeah.
Me: What with?
TB: I dunno, what should I hunt them with?
Me: Probably a sword. Or a knife.
TB: Yeah a knife. I'll hunt them with a butter knife.
24. Self Proclamation 3
TB: Mama, I'm the new David Attenborough..
25.
TB: Mama, Fish 'n' Chips are 'every now and then' food.
Me: Yup.
TB: SO.... We can have then NOW and THEN we can have them again tomorrow.
26. Hippy mum dream child.
TB: Mama, do planets live?
Me: Well yeah, I suppose they do. They have activity and like our planet, it moves and has the crust which is full of all the life. We're all kind of one. But no, it's doesn't have a heart as such.
TB: Yeah it does, we're the heart of the Earth.
Me: You're amazing.
Some Concert for the Kimberley Pictures -
Some Sea Shepherd pictures -
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