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He has slowly, partially moved from Angry Birds towards Star Wars, logically via Angry Birds Star Wars. He has some plastic lightsabers. He has watched A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back but refuses to watch The Return of the Jedi until he's 'an adult'. Certainly, it's because the end of Empire Strikes Back, when Luke got his arm cut off, and Vader, was well, you know (I hate spoilers) was just too scary. Light saber noises accompany most tasks. Putting dishes away requires wars between forks and spoons. He and his friend, Oliver, gave each other flying lessons. Oliver hurt himself as he flew into Maddy's head. The Bean, reportedly, was fine, because he is a better flyer than Oliver, and Cameron as well I'm told, because he knows how to steer his arms.
But I've been equally obsessed with moving to a beach side, country house, living a vegie patch, hippy school, organic cooking, yogi life. I'm obsessed with teaching about the media's representation of life, gender, culture, status, power, bodies, struggles, triumphs. I'm obsessed with HBO, Netflix, AMC. I'm obsessed with yoga. I'm obsessed with awareness.
Everyone's the same. Everyone is connected.
Life is good. Life is tricky. Life is funny. Life is tiring. Life is busy. Life is difficult.
Life is a journey.
Life is beautiful.
Things The Bean has said:
1. TB : Mama we should just go sit at the train station one day and watch all the trains go past. All day.
2.
TB: Mama, I wish we could control the weather.
TB: But I would let it be hot in the day time and I would just make it cold in the night time. I miss my doona.
3.
3.
Me: Do you want to have a party?
TB: Nah, I just want my Angry Birds cake on my birthday.
Me: Well, who do you to come over?
TB: Well Hayden said he wanted to come.
Me: That means it will be a party on the Saturday.
TB: No, I want my cake on my birthday.
Me: That's the Thursday, you can't have a party on a school night.
TB: We'll just have to make my birthday a holiday, then.
4.
4.
TB: You don't need to tell me that because I crept over when you were on the phone.
Me: You crept over?
TB: Yeah I crept over with my ears and heard you
5.
5.
TB: Does the cash machine have cotton to build all the cash?
6.
6.
TB: When you put things in a speech bubble it doesn't even need speech marks
Me: No?
TB: No 'cause the speech bubble is an arrow to the person talking
Me: Who taught you that?
TB: I taught myself. Speech bubbles don't need speech marks because they're like a bag of words.
7.
7.
TB: I can't eat my breakfast too quick or else I'll get brain freeze..
8.
8.
TB: Mama, you're eye never closes, your skin closes, but your eye just sits there
Me: You're right.
TB: It's mostly just sees the dark
9. Spoiled??
9. Spoiled??
TB: When are we gonna go on another holiday?
Me: You mean overseas?
TB: Yeah
Me: We go to Langkawi in September
TB: I can't wait that long! I need to go on another holiday now!!! NOW!
10. Car racing on the rug in the lounge room.
10. Car racing on the rug in the lounge room.
TB: Look Mama these cars all have super powers to make them go faster.. This one shoots lasers out the back, this one does skids in the air it's so fast, this one moves at the speed of super fast light. This one shoots other cars with spikes. When this one goes fast it does an echo and it goes really fast and echoes come out. You've got to see this one, Mama, this one isn't very shiny but it picks up other cars and shoots them - he actually does a death charge. This one does shock waves and sends out a big shock web that goes everywhere. And this one, this one Mama, shoots pizzas.
11. Drawing a picture of 'Cheese Land'
11. Drawing a picture of 'Cheese Land'
Me: I bet uncle Abum would like to live in cheese land
TB: No he wouldn't
Me: But he loves cheese. You love cheese.
TB: Yeah but it stinks there
12.
12.
TB: See Mama the windscreen wipers are fighting. The one on your side is pushing water breakfast to the other one and he's just pushing it down. He doesn't want it
13.
TB: Sometimes dots on your face make you really sick
14. Avoiding food additives (we both have yucky reactions to them)
TB: Sometimes dots on your face make you really sick
14. Avoiding food additives (we both have yucky reactions to them)
TB: Next birthday I want a Star Wars party.
Me: Ok, so what kind of cake?
TB: A Star Wars one.
Me: Yeah, but what part of Star Wars? A character or a ship or what?
TB: No, just Star Wars
Me: Oh, you mean the words 'Star Wars'?
TB: Yeah.
Me: So what colour.
TB: Mama, the Star Wars colour! ORANGE! But it will be easy to make it orange because there's lots of orange things that don't have numbers.. I was thinking you could use, you know, those lentils.. That'll work..
15. I can't explain this one, either he secretly watches Game of Thrones when I'm not watching, he secretly reads Game of Thrones when I'm not watching. Or, maybe, he's a bit creepy?
TB: Halloween is for all the scary monsters who were in the war to come back to the earth.. Like Frankenstein.. And they made the earth. And they were made in castles. And also they had no guns but they used their scary power that the ghosts scared people and shrunk people and they bended their knees. And they were frozen to the one spot. And some of them couldn't even see. And the castles had to fight by themselves. And some castles were transformers and they could fight them off! And now we're lucky we're in the fourth state of life. Where there are no scary things..
15. I can't explain this one, either he secretly watches Game of Thrones when I'm not watching, he secretly reads Game of Thrones when I'm not watching. Or, maybe, he's a bit creepy?
TB: Halloween is for all the scary monsters who were in the war to come back to the earth.. Like Frankenstein.. And they made the earth. And they were made in castles. And also they had no guns but they used their scary power that the ghosts scared people and shrunk people and they bended their knees. And they were frozen to the one spot. And some of them couldn't even see. And the castles had to fight by themselves. And some castles were transformers and they could fight them off! And now we're lucky we're in the fourth state of life. Where there are no scary things..
16. Reaches for a face washer I'm holding out to him
TB: I'm using the force
Me: Hahah
TB: Did it wobble?
17
Me: If I have another baby one day, will you help look after it?
Me: If I have another baby one day, will you help look after it?
TB: Yup, I'll feed it. Like Dragon
Me: Hahah
TB: When you say it's time to feed the baby I'll just feed the baby and then I'll feed Dragon. He'll just have to wait.
18. Has a cold.
TB: I'm not sure how I got sick, Mama.
Me: Does someone at school maybe have a cold?
TB: Hmmmm, nope. But Darcy drew a picture in Maddy's spelling book, of a cat with a booger out it's nose. Maybe I got sick when I looked at her picture.
Me: hahahah
TB: Don't you remember you said to me one time that I can look at people and get sick?
18. Has a cold.
TB: I'm not sure how I got sick, Mama.
Me: Does someone at school maybe have a cold?
TB: Hmmmm, nope. But Darcy drew a picture in Maddy's spelling book, of a cat with a booger out it's nose. Maybe I got sick when I looked at her picture.
Me: hahahah
TB: Don't you remember you said to me one time that I can look at people and get sick?
