Amazing!!
See? sleestak just proved all the anti-kid people right; even when you’re singing their praises, you don’t actually have enough time to get off a note…
Damned hampsters ate my post. TWICE :smack:
Anyway, I’ll repost (hopefully, unless the hampsters just hate kid related posts:))
Last night I took a break from studying math and went outside with my cats while I enjoyed a cold beverage. I was tired, fairly brain dead and feeling like an old fart.
After about 10 minutes three kids came running around the corner which scared my cats so the kittens ran back inside. The kids, Jason about 9, Brittany about 7 and Shawna 6, stopped because they wanted to pet my cats. After a little coaxing the Mom cat Dagny put in a brief appearence then went back into my apartment.
I started talking to the kids and they were really well behaved (which is odd in my apartment building). The were playing tag when they stopped to meet my cats. After talking to the kids for a bit I figured out that Shawna was ‘IT’ when the game was paused so that they could meet my cats. Shawna, a pretty little girl with blond hair and blue eyes, was standing next to my chair. I whispered into Shawnas ear “You’re it right?” and she whisphered back “Yes.”. I then told her to tag Jason and run. She did.
On the next pass Jason decided that I was fair game. He ran by and hit me on the shoulder and yelled “You’re IT”. I spent the next 45 minutes running around playing tag.
It made my day. It totally brought me out of my funk.
Slee
So did you win? hehehehehehe! I hope the kittens rewarded the kidlings by making an appearance again.
Being an older guy I held back a bit. I played for fun, not to win.
I went to do a load of laundry tonight and ran into Shawna. Shawna was with her Mom. I walked into the laundry room and started to load the washing machine and Shawna hit me on the leg then, when I turned around, started to give me high fives. Shawna was repeating “We tagged Jason”. Shawna’s Mom was curious about how her kid knew me so I explained what happened. (#1)
I talked to Shawna’s Mom for a bit an then noticed that Shawna’s little sister is a little copy of Shawna. Blond, blue eyes and cute as a button.
I told Shawna and her Mom (I don’t remeber her name) that they could come over to my apartment and visit my cats at anytime.
Slee
#1. With the nasty things that have happened with the Catholic Church and schools I am very wary about dealing with kids. I make sure that all my interactions with kids take place where someone else can see it.
So I’m driving home from the softball games yesterday, GrizzWife beside me and GrizzCub (nearly 21 months old) firmly belted into his carseat in the middle of the back seat.
My son is yammering the incomprehensibles of a nearly-two-year-old when I started paying close attention to what he was doing.
He’d cover his eyes with his hands and say
“weeee-oooo-eeee-oooo-eeee” (a song he learned at daycare “Where, oh where, oh where is GrizzCub” sung whilst hiding one’s eyes). He’d then uncover his eyes and proclaim
“PEE-BOOO!” (peek-a-boo!)
I had to pull over to the side of the road 'cuz I was laughing so hard.
The first words out of Baby Babe II’s mouth, other than mama, dada, etc. were “Oh man” when something goes wrong or she spills.
I’m trying to teach her to say “Hot enough for ya’?” in honor of summer, but she isn’t really taking the bait.
Dominic’s first word was “no!”