Joni's shadow...
A few days ago we went for a walk just after sunset, and as we walked along under the bright street lights we noticed Joni staring at her shadow. She would stop, and start walking again, all the time not taking her eyes off it! And then she really made us laugh: she began to try and "shake" her shadow: first, she lifted one foot way off the ground, but that didn't seem to work. So then she started to run- but it ran with her! And then she started stamping on it with one foot- "go!go!"- Becky and me haven't laughed so much in ages. She then tried to lift Beckys' foot off the floor-perhaps if Joni couldn't escape, she could help mummy to!
We were out walking again yesterday and Joni had her little pram with her (for the first time) with her "baby" (dolly) all nicely tucked into her blanket inside. Well, as we walked along, Joni suddenly pushed the pram out in front of her, then caught it up again and pushed it along a little further, then pushed it out in front of her....I was dumbstruck, I just stood and looked at Becky: this is exactly what I do to Joni when we take her out in the pram, because she likes the sudden speed of me pushing her out ahead, and here she was doing it to her dolly! The reason I'm so impressed by that I think is she's never seen me do it, as she's always been in the pram, so I think it's clever that she could do it to her dolly just the same.
One more Join-ism before I grudgingly start Uni work for the rest of the day: yesterday we went down to the allotment and did a bit of digging (a bit? Our hands are covered in blisters! I said to Bex, if water blisters are full of water, which they seem to be when they burst, could someone lost in a desert rub his hands together till he got water-blisters, and then drink the blisters-water? ;-) and of course a lot of worms were dug up as we turned the soil. I looked up and Joni was standing there, holding a worm, which I thought was good-she doesn't seem scared of creepy-crawlies (unlike me). When I looked again though, the worm had gone, and Joni looked at me and said...."pocket"....and yes, it was...
We were out walking again yesterday and Joni had her little pram with her (for the first time) with her "baby" (dolly) all nicely tucked into her blanket inside. Well, as we walked along, Joni suddenly pushed the pram out in front of her, then caught it up again and pushed it along a little further, then pushed it out in front of her....I was dumbstruck, I just stood and looked at Becky: this is exactly what I do to Joni when we take her out in the pram, because she likes the sudden speed of me pushing her out ahead, and here she was doing it to her dolly! The reason I'm so impressed by that I think is she's never seen me do it, as she's always been in the pram, so I think it's clever that she could do it to her dolly just the same.
One more Join-ism before I grudgingly start Uni work for the rest of the day: yesterday we went down to the allotment and did a bit of digging (a bit? Our hands are covered in blisters! I said to Bex, if water blisters are full of water, which they seem to be when they burst, could someone lost in a desert rub his hands together till he got water-blisters, and then drink the blisters-water? ;-) and of course a lot of worms were dug up as we turned the soil. I looked up and Joni was standing there, holding a worm, which I thought was good-she doesn't seem scared of creepy-crawlies (unlike me). When I looked again though, the worm had gone, and Joni looked at me and said...."pocket"....and yes, it was...
posted by John Doran-Armstrong at 9:46 AM
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John-
You funny guy. Do you know of an eighties band called Prefab Sprout? I bet you do...
The main guy is called Paddy McAloon from Newcastle- just curious.
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