Fun Facts
December 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Carmen, here is one: Bill tried to teach Buddy how to talk, when Buddy was only eight months old, and Bill was not quite three. Bill showed Buddy words and pictures in a book, and if Buddy didn’t say it, Bill whacked him.
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Beth kept being bossy, when she was seven. I kept telling her to “please just take care of yourself”. One evening at dinner, she piled more and more mashed potatoes on her plate.
“What are you doing, Beth?!” I yelled. “I’m taking care of myself”, she calmly replied.
When Beth caught Tony happily watching his cartoons, she walked up and turned to another station. Tony started screeching, and Mom came in and made them turn off the TV. Beth went off with a grin on her face. Mission accomplished.
Elaine went to Parent’s night at school, and Beth was anxious to show her Mom her desk, and her work. Where is your desk, Beth? “Over here,” she said, pointing to a desk way over in the corner of the room away from the other students. Bethy just couldn’t keep that tongue from wagging.
Mom heard Tony screaming in his sleep, and ran into the room. “Addigator git me! Addigator git me” His legs were tangled up in his sheet.
Mom heard Lainie talking in her sleep, when she was four. She very plainly said, “Hop, hop, to the barber shop.” That was a poem that we had read before bedtime.
When Buddy was just a baby of eighteen months old, we were playing in the sand at the bay near the Polhemus’ house. Suddenly, Buddy came running, pointing up in the sky at a flock of seagulls and yelling “Gok! Gok! Ooora, ooora Rok! Gok! GoK! ooora, ooora Rok! Everytime I see a seagull, I think about that, says his Mother.
By mother on Dec 29, 2009
Carmen, maybe you can think of a way to shorten some of those fun facts.
By mother on Dec 29, 2009
If these events are too long to be “Fun Facts”, they can be some of the stories for our “family stories”. I can probably think of a few more if I really put my brain to work. I only wish I had done what Deann Giles did. Everytime one of her kids did or said something funny, she wrote it down in a special book just for them, and they have loved reading their books about when they were little, and the things they said and did.
By mother on Jan 9, 2010
For instance, be sure to include Teyla singing “I Am A Child of God.”
I just read one about Brenda in a letter I wrote to Daddy in Birmingham when we lived in California. Sacrament was over, and I was still sitting on the last bench, holding Tony, and I noticed Brenda in the hallway looking up at a tall, thin man. She walked around him, looking up at him, two or three times, and then she came in to me, with tears in her eyes. I said, “Oh my, what’s wrong, Brenda?” She said, “That Poppy won’t pick me up!” Brenda was 2 years and 8 months old.
I guess she thought that all Poppy’s were the same.
By mother on Jan 9, 2010