Friday, May 16, 2008
That "other guy"
So, we get to my Nana's house on Friday night and eat our quite delicious, and much looked forward to, green chili cheeseburgers from Lotaburger. It didn't take long before my five year old nephew, Ethan, became bored. Afterall, there were only adults in the house, and Heaven only knows what they were talking about! He goes and gets a blanket and lays it on the floor...presumably to lay down with. He then goes to get a pillow, but WAIT! He's stopped in his tracks! Kerry, also bored with the adult conversation...or perhaps just feeling a little out numbered in the estrogen filled house, takes Ethan's blanket and makes a "fort" with a chair and Nana's treadmill. Kerry then proceeds to scour the house for rubberbands. Do any of you see where this might be going? Foolishly (because she's not married to my husband and doesn't see what is coming next) my sister gives him some hair rubberbands. (At this point I must also interject an ongoing argument with my sister and husband. He calls them "hair do-dahs", and she calls them "hair bobs"...) Then, yes you see it coming, Kerry proceeds to teach Ethan how to shoot rubberbands across the room. (Knowing what was coming, I had already moved the breakables out of the line of fire) Ethan, being a very quick study, is having a blast! Kerry launches a rubberband clear into the dining room (where the above mentioned estrogen is chatting it up). Ethan, being in fear of his life due to early understanding of what estrogen can do to a little boy that is being naughty, immediately runs into the dining room to declare to his mother "Mommy! I just want you to know that I didn't do that! It was that other guy!". He, of course, now knows that the "other guy" is his Uncle Kerry....he also seemed to catch on quickly that when an older seemingly "wiser" man puts you up to something, that you don't seem to catch the flack of the estrogen laden women in the house! :D He also later learned that his Uncle Kerry can "juggle lizards" and "take the stinger out of a bee"! I'm not sure which little boy had the most fun on our visit...Uncle Kerry or Ethan!
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I have to tell you, to date, Ethan still talks about his Uncle Kerry and the juggling frogs at that place by the river.
juggling frogs? Nothing's changed! Do snakes ring a bell?
Oh do tell about the snakes. I do not know this
Well, my dearest AJ, on a regular occasion my father would come home with a new "pet". He would find garter snakes in the road on the way home! Mom didn't want them slithering on the floor, so he often juggled so he didn't drop them as we played with them!
You forgot to tell her about the one that he let my little baby (Jeff) play with...it bit him. I don't know who was crankier..me or Jeff. Not a pretty sight, no matter how you look at it! :(
OMG how has that "other guy" lived to this age? No snake is gonna live after bitting my boys and the man that brought him in would have some serious scars and possibly walk differntly for the rest of his life. LOL
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