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Goblinian
2008-03-17 11:46:00
Glossary:avicada 'ah vee kay da' - Cicada. A locust type insect. We have hordes of these noisy buggers in the trees surrounding our house. Conor just confused cicada with avocado. It's stuck. If what I'm understanding is correct, the wild bush monkeys ( see a previous post) and the avicadas are in cahoots.Bo-Bo - Injury. Boo boo was his preference initially.Bloods 'bwoods'- Alternative injury word.Crusties - Potato chips. We have no idea where this came from although this made me laughHot Fizz - Carbonated beverages, including beer. Anything that makes the tongue tingle.Iowa - IslaNoo-Noo - Vacuum cleaner. Conor picked this up watching a few episodes of the psychedelic Teletubbies. He can say vacuum, he just prefers Noo Noo.Lady Girls "wady girls' - Females 5 years and up.Sky Tunnels - Long cloudsCurrent favourite expressions:"Very good, Mummy. Good". Usually comes with applause. It's offered up for the most trivial task such as wiping the bench. The intent...

Goblin's pick of the best
2008-03-16 09:08:00
I know this is a kids' blog but the following 'politically incorrect' eye candy television ad is one of Conor's favourites. It should be obvious why as there's "pretty wady girls". I thinks he wants a moon hopper too. It shares top spot with a very irritating cat food offering that I cannot bring myself to share with you. Let's just say it features a frumpy harpy of a woman screeching and butchering the name Henry. "HENNNNN AH REE" needs to be booted from Kiwi screens. Whiskas, you can do better. I don't care that my son thinks it's great but I do care that my daughter bursts into tears when she hears the harpy 'call' for her cat.Transfixed by this:An honorable mention: (I'm assuming Conor's recent underpants fixation is to blame)Lastly, Both Conor and Isla will spark up for any Sony Bravia Ads and I don't blame them. They're beautifully done. The colour, the music, the movement. It's where Conor fell in love with the sweet Jose Gonzalez cover, 'Heartbeats...
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Cadbury and Beautifcation
2008-03-15 09:42:00
This morning Conor finished off half a king sized block of Cadbury Fudge Brownie Chocolate. The brown 'gold' is a rare thing in our house. On the odd occasion we buy any, I've usually tucked into it before any one else gets a chance. Conor sought his revenge just after breakfast and within half an hour was bouncing off the walls. The cunning thief also made sure to return the empty packet back to the fridge and avoided any obvious chocolately smears on his face or anywhere else for that matter. So initially, consider me perplexed as to why he was nutting out.Nothing was safe this morning although I'm pleased Isla napped for so long as she avoided being madeover. Conor beautified himself instead. First with my bronzer which gave him Oompa-Loompa orange cheeks and then later he applied some some lovely metallic blue eye shadow over what was left of his "glow". I'm assuming his attention span had been short circuited from the sugar rush which stopped him from going al...

In Teh Name Ov
2008-03-14 09:27:00
I only have a small handful of pet names for Conor. The unimaginative and eternally childish Con-Con is used frequently. Then there's Conan, Conogan and the necessary Goblin, Goblet and Gobbalot. More recently I've been using Coddler, blurted out accidentally when I was trying to say Conor and toddler at the same time. Much earlier on, during the 4-7 month period, Jabba, Chunk and Chubs were fairly common. Presently, Conor rather likes the use of his first middle name James too. He will say his full name when asked. It only took a few playful attempts to get Isla's full name perfected also. I never expected it. It normally comes out like "Iowa Scarwet Bonnie Fwur Avril Oafayleeeee".Isla's the madam of nicknames. I just realised recently how fitting General Burkhalter would be for her. Mr Cranky General from Hogan's Heroes was one of my toddler nicknames which apparently I took great umbrage to, with foot stamping and petulant outcries of "I'm not Genral Bukhaltah!". I digres...

Manky toes & a fatso eye
2008-03-13 04:28:00
Conor's had issues with the toes on his left foot for the last month or so. Itchy, red, blistery and crusty issues. We initially thought it was athlete's foot but the doctor pooh poohed that idea and said bacterial. Conor also lost one of his toe nails a few days after trying to wrestle a safety gate which did not help in the foot healing department. On Monday it was confirmed he had a fungal nasty with a secondary bacterial infection. The bacteria had decided to squat where the fungus had left off. Well, to be honest, I proposed that idea and doctor agreed with it. So, rather than just oral antibiotics, he's also on a course of topical fungicidal cream. The double assault will hopefully remove the manky from the foot and quickly. Thankfully, the cream contains a little bit of cortisone which should reduce the amount he attacks his foot with scratching. Scratching only makes things worse.To add insult to injury, Conor awoke with a fat eyelid yesterday. Initially, I tho...

Hipzteria
2008-03-12 06:17:00
Isla's one week check up was on Monday. We had screams and tears throughout the 50 or so minutes we were there. It's The Scary Place now. White coats and white linen set her off, and these things are fairly unavoidable in such a place.Isla had a pelvic x-ray first and the cries hit as soon as she saw the table. I zoned out after about a minute. I had to. Everything is so much louder in the x-ray room - her screams echoed and pounded my ears. She did not much like the cold metal gonad protector either. I don't blame her. She proceeded to buck and with such conviction the radiographer needed to grab another pair of hands. I held Isla's legs whilst the extra x-ray heavy held the shoulders end. You'd think after three months in a plaster cast, her legs would not be capable of such a display of strength.Later, the orthopaedic paediatrician only looked at Isla and she went berserk. He never touched her but making eye contact was quite enough. It meant the possibility of...