Children

[radegund]

Game yesterday afternoon was running around our local green space being a dizzying series of superheroes (e.g. one called Peter Zoopy, which I think is a fabulous name for a superhero), villains, henchpersons, guards, etc.

Oyster: Now I do an evil laugh, like this - henh henh henh.
Mama: You dastardly villain! *runs away*
Oyster: *gives chase* Seize her!
Mama: You'll never get away with this!
Oyster: Oh yes I will, you big hairy fluff!
Mama: *is reduced to helpless giggling, which allows the villain to catch up - good strategy, that*

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The Feaster is talking a blue streak these days. He can say "tractor" (dada) and "car" (gaah) and "dragon" (dghii) and "donkey" (dahgii), and I'm pretty sure he said "other" (adah) this morning, meaning "other side [i.e. breast], please". When we emerge from the present chaos, we'll put up a list on the kitchen wall, like we had for the Oyster at the same stage.

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They're awfully nice, you know. Here, look, I'll show you:

This is the Feaster, who has discovered Doing Cute. He's fairly competent at it, I feel.


This is not the Oyster. It is an old man who lives in a bush just across from K's house. He often comes to Rue P on holiday.


Here are the two of them on Inch Strand in Kerry at Easter.


This is the Feaster that same day, looking kind of crazed.


And this is the Oyster on the train home from that holiday, doing a strict face, like a king (I think that's an invisible sceptre he's clutching).

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And finally, just because I think this deserves a wider audience (ooh, get me), here's a sticky-tape picture that the Oyster made in our holiday house at Easter. He came up with the technique himself, as far as I know. Giraffe, see?

Comments

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Oh, lawd, the Oyster is so grown-up! And the Feaster is a proper toddler! Lovely to see them, but must see them (and you) in the flesh soon.

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Yes, we must! I'm still vaguely hoping to do a minor Grand Tour of Great Britain at some point this year. And you'd be more than welcome here, if you fancied popping over, pretty much any time after July.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

If you told me the old man who lives in a bush was actually Niall at the same age, I wouldn't even have questioned you. Good heavens!

And I LOVE Feaster crawling out of (or into?) the crack on the beach!

[radegund.livejournal.com]

That's so funny! I can see the resemblance when I look for it, but mostly O just looks like himself to me.

[blue-monday.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Feaster is very competent at being cute, and that picture on the rocks is great. And the Oyster looks stunningly grown up all of a sudden.

[radegund.livejournal.com]

He is! It's most unexpected :-)

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, doesn't Oyster look like his daddy!

And the Feaster is a little boy, not a baby!

(Tell the Oyster I love the giraffe.)

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes! (Though as I said to biascut, I have to look for the resemblance, mostly O just looks like himself.)

[ainetl.livejournal.com]

hehe love the giraffe. :)

i also can not believe how quickly your beautiful children are growing!

[radegund.livejournal.com]

I know, it's a bit astonishing :-)

[londonn7.livejournal.com]

ah, I miss you all. I love the one of the two of them on the beach.

[radegund.livejournal.com]

I miss you too! Must talk soon :-)