Getting Better All the Time 3.18

In-laws outlaws

It started off as a wonderful Saturday afternoon; I was taking a little a nice nap with Unter & Uber. Then suddenly, we were woken from our slumber by banging on the front door. I was not happy, rushed to the door and opened to find my niece (K), my nephew (D), and brother-in-law (R) were the culprits of pounding, laughing away. “Babies sleeping!” I hissed, “What are you thinking?!” They turned sullen.

Some things from their visit….

I learned from K that reading out loud helps you remember. She got that from her teacher. It makes sense, and I never really thought of it. It just is a different pathway for information to get into your brain, when you read, it is just visual. When you read out loud, it is visual, and auditory, ( and maybe even a bit of muscle learning from the mouth, too.) So, when thing calm down at the home front, and I eventually go back to school to get that silly little degree that shows that I know how to jump through hoops, then I will have to remember to read my notes out loud. Ke always seems so happy to teach her uncle something. A summer ago she taught me about the cycles of the moon (waxing, wanning)…seriously, it made sense. (When it comes to science, I am Earth-centric…there’s enough stuff down here to learn.)

I’ve started reading science magazines to Unter & Uber. Hey, it helps me remember, and reading is good for the childrens. I do not have a career path picked out for them. I hope they are lucky enough to find a niche they enjoy and are happy with. I do want them to be science & math & music literate.

Me, K & D talked about why we need to eat fiber. (So we can poop.) Then we asked, why don’t Unter & Uber need fiber in their diet? Seriously, anyone? I can tell you, they are not constipated.

I already told you about K & D helping out with the yard work. J

I felt bad for not taking proper care of K, I think she got a bit of heat-sickness/fever. When I finally figured out that she wasn’t feeling well I kicked her out of the hot house to the cooler back deck (it was shaded) and forced her to drink cold water. Since she hadn’t eaten lunch or dinner, I went to the store to buy grapes & watermelon, her favorite fruits, so she would be ingesting food that was very moist. Sorry K I didn’t take better care of you. There’s a lot of stuff going on in my life right now.

As young people do…we started talking about super-heroes. And naturally what type of super powers you would like to have. We limited it to only five powers!
K: shoot throwing stars out of hands, fly, summon dragons, take any shape
D: lasers from eyes, shoot fireballs from hands, catch anything he was holding on fire, summon lava-men

I told them that I had the best power, the power to shoot cotton candy from my hands. I would be Cotton Candy Man. I could defeat both of them.

Against K, it would be simple, I would cover her with cotton candy so she couldn’t see or fly. And then when the dragon showed up that she summoned, the dragon would see the big pile of cotton candy (with K inside) and eat it up (with K inside).
Against D a bit tougher, no direct attack. However, a boy cannot resist cotton candy, so I would make a big pile and he would have to eat the yumminess all up, until he was very sick to his stomach. “But what about the lava-men?” K asked, hoping someone could defeat Cotton Candy Man. Simple. I would sculpt out of cotton candy beautiful Lava-women, and the Lava-men would fall in love. However, when they touched them, the cotton candy would burn up, and the Lava-men would be sad. So sad, that they would cry, and their tears would cause their lava to cool down, and solidify, and they would turn to stone.

D was not to let Cotton Candy Man escape. “I know Uber’s power,” he said, looking at my peacefully sleeping son. “He’s the Super-Sleeper,” D continued, “and when he breathes out his nose, everybody that is around him fall asleep. That would beat Cotton Candy Man.”

Posted by joncim at July 28, 2007 10:51 PM