Mummified Fork

How long is this noodle? My fork is being mummified!

Bazoolets

While playing a zombie game on the iPad...

Dad: What's that big gun there? Get that gun.
Me: It's a bazooka. I have five bazoolets.

Impausible!

"Go get your shoes on. Pause that if you can."
"I can't pause it. It's impausible!"

Rolling Down a Hill

Today it was pretty cold. But it was also mostly sunny. When it wasn't sunny it snowed, which was interesting, but it didn't snow for very long. We went to the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore to meet a friend of Mum's and her son who is a friend of mine. We'd been there yesterday and had a lot of fun so we thought it would be a good place to go again to play.

And play we did! We played at the park, we explored in the woods, and we found a nice hill to roll down. Rolling down a really big hill is one of the 50 things to do before you're 11 and 3/4. Dad's had me try it before but I've never enjoyed it because I always ended up rolling in circles. I managed to get a much better hang of it this time though and my friend and I rolled down the hill for ages while the Mums and Dads explored the 1700s township.

I asked my friend what his Dad did for a living at one point. The conversation went a bit like this:
Me: "What does your dad do?!"
Him: "He's a painter."
Me: "What?!"
Him: "He's a painter."
Me: "What?!" (we were running about and I couldn't hear very well)
Him: "He paints things!"
Me: "Well my Dad works at Sky and when we watch the telly we get it for free!"

We also found a few more wildcats. Dad had spotted these in Newtonmore the day before and while driving through we'd counted how many we could see in people's gardens, on garage roofs and elsewhere. We'd managed seven and figured we'd done quite well - there would only be about 10 or so, surely? We asked at the museum how many there are and it turns out there are about 150! We did find some more at the museum with my friend though!

Jim Bheag

"Dad, let's pretend this is like a mountain."
"Would you like to go mountain walking with me?"
"Yes! I'd like to climb that mountain called... Jim!"
"Creag?"
"Yeh, Craig"
"Creag Bheag..."
"It would be better if it was called George."

Blogging

Here's a quick snap of me writing the previous blog entry...

[edit by Daddy - Edan really did write some of the previous blog entry - his words, his typing, unedited. So proud!]

Surnames

I was chatting with Mummy before bed last night and we got on to the subject of surnames and she was telling me how some people got their names from the jobs they did. Like Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Thatcher and so I asked:

"Like Mindy From-the-network?"

[Search for Mindy for more info if you're not familiar with the Disney film Bolt]

But apparently that's not her real name...

The Negotiator

"If you don't pass me that helicopter then you can't come to my party. And if you don't come to my party then I can't have a party. And I want to have a party. So you need to come to my party. So you need to do what I tell you. So pass me that helicopter."

CHiPs

Check this out! It's my new bike! It's a Ridgeback MX14. I saved up my money and got Mummy to sell some of my old baby toys to pay for half of it. Once I was good enough on my Puky we went to buy it from a really cool shop in Fife called Sandy Wallace Cycles. They were really helpful and gave me plenty time to ride the bike around the shop to ensure I could reach the pedals and brake levers OK.


Here's a picture of me riding with Daddy. Daddy said something about being CHiPs so I said he could be the big chip and I'd be the little chip. He laughed at that - not sure why...

To straighten socks...

Mummy: "Sit on your b'hookey."
Edan: "Why did you say it in French?"

SpeedBoy has his invunisations

Hiya,

I went swimming on Sunday to Whitburn pool with Mummy because Daddy had to work. It was the first time we'd been to Whitburn pool and it was very good. It has a very large pool for grown ups and a great pool for kids too. Except the kids pool was being used for a class so we weren't allowed to play in there. We had to go in the adult pool. It was a fuge pool and was far too deep for me to touch the bottom anywhere. But that didn't trouble me. I just used my woggle and swum around. I even did two lengths! Mummy was very impressed and called me a speedboat, but I corrected her and told her that I'm a speedboy!

Today I had to go to the doctor's and get my latest invunisations. They tried to distract me and get me to look out the window while two of them came at me from either side and stuck a needle in each arm! I didn't appreciate that much but Mummy says I was very brave and I got a nice sticker for my jumper. I went back to nursery and didn't think much of it but it was a wee bit sore in the evening so no bath tonight. We'll take the plasters off tomorrow and it'll be all better. At least now I can't catch any nasty bugs.

Carpet Picnic

Picnics. Yum! When we came back from Asda last weekend I insisted on a wee picnic. I'd managed to make enough noise at Asda to get Mummy and Daddy to buy me some chicken on a stick (chicken satay to you). Once we got home I decided on the picnic. So I had one chicken on a stick, three grapes, two Dairylea slices and one cheerio. Excellent!

Cockie or Cockney?

Mummy: "Edan, will you go to the toilet please before we go to soft play?"

Edan: "I'm too busy just now, darlin'. I'll go later."

I wonder who I picked that up from?...Mummy, or the other one?

And just for fun, here's a video of me on my Puky bike (it has no pedals - I'm just learning to balance).

Errmmmm. DO YOU KNOW?!

This is really a post for Mummy. She's missing all the cute words I used to say and finally getting "finger" was the last straw. So here's a short catalogue of (hopefully) all the words I used to get wrong (in no particular order)...

Singer (with a hard g) - finger
Ebalop/ephalant - elephant
Hippomotamus - hippopotamus
Sank you - thank you
Akstident - accident
Nanana - banana
Pocuter/pyoongcooter - computer
Bampa - grandpa
Ganny - granny
free - three
foots - feet
teef - teeth
foof - blow
hodilay - holiday
invunisations - immunisations
chicken on a stick - chicken satay
fuge - huge
icnormous - enormous
Feuph - Phew
betend - pretend
capastrophe - catastrophe
I-areen - Irene
pokes - spikes
betato - potato
icnore - ignore
ic least - at least
sucuum cleaner - vacuum cleaner
constructions - instructions
combinate - combine

If any readers remember any others then please comment and I'll add them to the list.

Did you hear the one about...?

Daddy was very impressed with this joke I told him on Monday -

What do you call a cat with eight legs?

Octopus.

You can't win this argument

Mummy: "Edan, would you please do what you are told, and stop answering back?"
Me: "I'm not answering back."

Munch, munch, munch

I dig my garden, I dig, dig, dig.
I dig my garden, I dig it deep.
I plant some seeds and I watch them grow.
But the rabbit comes along, oh no.
He eats my carrots, munch, munch, munch.
He eats my carrots, he eats a whole bunch.
I run out to my garden and I shoo, shoo, shoo.
But the rabbit will come back. Oh what will I do?
Oh the rabbit will come back. Oh what will I do?

What kind of Edan are you?

"Edan, would you eat with your fork please."
"No"
"Good boys eat with their forks. And big boys eat with their forks."
"But not little boys. And not me."
"Why not?"
"Because that's not the kind of Edan I am!"

Smiley

Me: "Yeuch! My sticker's all yucky now."
Daddy: "Well, don't put it in your mouth then."
Me: "I didn't! It just went in on its own."

Tiny Tim

I had a little turtle,
His name was Tiny Tim.
I put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim.

He drank up all the water,
He ate a bar of soap,
Then that little turtle,
Had bubbles in his throat.