Aaron is trying to read a lot now (writing on bottles and boxes, that sort of thing), and spelling things out to himself all the time. It’s exciting to see that he’s taken such an interest in literacy! Caleb has become a terrible mumbler, but it’s actually not just a mumble as much as it is picking up the Saint accent. Both boys say things like “hee-ya” and “fowa” instead of “here” and “for” every so often. I don’t know how they have managed to pick up this accent as they are mostly around Nick and me; I suppose from their friends and the radio. There are a couple of dreadful radio personalities who don’t pronounce their words, they sort of skip over them and the words run into each other in a very indistinct way, which is exactly what Caleb is doing. Caleb is sick again, with his usual chesty cold. Shame, it really knocks him hard every time. He coughed a lot today, and we decided to nebulize him – I popped up to the hospital to ask for some medicine for our own nebulizer, and after explaining the situation with Caleb, they were very happy to hand over the plastic vials, 10 each of the two kinds I need to use. No forms to fill in, nothing to sign, no wait, nothing to pay – so easy!
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Goat's Meat Curry
No problems with school this morning, other than waiting for 10.30 to listen to the radio. It was the final elimination round today, taking the contestants down to the top three. Guess what? Nick is in the top three! The other two are a country song about “walking with my grandson” in a real American drawl, and a song about “walking a little more instead of jumping in your car.” But on the island, where you have smash hits about goat’s meat curry, any lyrics go! Nick’s lyrics are more poetic. After three years of hearing the song off and on, and now a week of hearing it three times a day on radio, and after actually asking Nick, I finally have the first line of the verse figured out: “Walking under winter’s lighter skies I delight in the mellow blues, cloudless skies and expanse touching textured fields of golden hues” – this to a very complicated tune that you can barely hum along to, let alone sing. I still can’t sing it. Its downfall might be that it’s not catchy, although you can easily listen to it over and over again without getting sick of it. Well, we just have to wait for Friday now!
Aaron is trying to read a lot now (writing on bottles and boxes, that sort of thing), and spelling things out to himself all the time. It’s exciting to see that he’s taken such an interest in literacy! Caleb has become a terrible mumbler, but it’s actually not just a mumble as much as it is picking up the Saint accent. Both boys say things like “hee-ya” and “fowa” instead of “here” and “for” every so often. I don’t know how they have managed to pick up this accent as they are mostly around Nick and me; I suppose from their friends and the radio. There are a couple of dreadful radio personalities who don’t pronounce their words, they sort of skip over them and the words run into each other in a very indistinct way, which is exactly what Caleb is doing. Caleb is sick again, with his usual chesty cold. Shame, it really knocks him hard every time. He coughed a lot today, and we decided to nebulize him – I popped up to the hospital to ask for some medicine for our own nebulizer, and after explaining the situation with Caleb, they were very happy to hand over the plastic vials, 10 each of the two kinds I need to use. No forms to fill in, nothing to sign, no wait, nothing to pay – so easy!
Aaron is trying to read a lot now (writing on bottles and boxes, that sort of thing), and spelling things out to himself all the time. It’s exciting to see that he’s taken such an interest in literacy! Caleb has become a terrible mumbler, but it’s actually not just a mumble as much as it is picking up the Saint accent. Both boys say things like “hee-ya” and “fowa” instead of “here” and “for” every so often. I don’t know how they have managed to pick up this accent as they are mostly around Nick and me; I suppose from their friends and the radio. There are a couple of dreadful radio personalities who don’t pronounce their words, they sort of skip over them and the words run into each other in a very indistinct way, which is exactly what Caleb is doing. Caleb is sick again, with his usual chesty cold. Shame, it really knocks him hard every time. He coughed a lot today, and we decided to nebulize him – I popped up to the hospital to ask for some medicine for our own nebulizer, and after explaining the situation with Caleb, they were very happy to hand over the plastic vials, 10 each of the two kinds I need to use. No forms to fill in, nothing to sign, no wait, nothing to pay – so easy!
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