Archive for April, 2006

Alarm clocks? Where we’re going we don’t need alarm clocks!

Published on 12 April 2006 in AAARGHH! GET ME OUT OF HERE!!, Funny and Maddening. 4 Comments

There was a raging debate going on in our bed at 7 o’clock this morning. It went something like this:

Hannah: I’m Darth Vader! RAAAARRGGHHH!!! (Note: this is a Darth Vader who wears a nightie and roars like a tiger. No heavy breathing required.)

Parents “shriek” with “fright”.

Lauren: I’m Barbie!

Parents sigh with relief.

Hannah: I’m Darth Vader!!

Lauren: No-o! I’m Darth Vader now!

Hannah: OK.

Lauren: I’m Darth Vader!! RAARGGHHHHH!!!

Shriek!

Hannah: I’m Darth Vader!! RAA…

Lauren: No! You’re Barbie!

Hannah: But I want to be Darth Vader!

Simultaneously:
Lauren: Mummy, Hannah won’t be Barbie!
Hannah: Daddy, it’s my turn to be Darth Vader!

And so on, forever. It’s funny how quickly we can be out of bed some days.

“The best in the whole wide wierd”

Published on 1 April 2006 in Education, Pictures, Touching and Trouble with words. 4 Comments


“The best in the whole wide wierd” by bitrot

Hannah wrote this questionnaire this morning and got me and Nicola to write in our answers. I suspect we were biased.

The answers to the obvious questions were:

1. “Oh yeah, it’s meant to say ‘world’.”
2. (Regarding the cactus-shaped object) “Er… it’s a bogey!”

Even fairy godmothers lie sometimes

Published on 1 April 2006 in Touching. Closed

An early start with Lauren this morning, who appeared next to the bed (with Panda) just before 6am after a bad dream. She climbed in for a cuddle and I asked her what her dream was about.

“I don’t want to tell you,” she said. And then, after a little pause: “But in Cinderella it says that dreams can come true, but that isn’t true, because it’s just a film.”