Upping the ante

[radegund]

Conversation in our kitchen this evening:

Radzer: (to her mother-in-law) Regard, if you will, these beautiful paintings, which I am affixing to the wall. Oisín did them when we were in Reading.
Oyster: Neh-Neh?
Radzer: Yes, that's right, we were visiting Ailbhe and Rob and Linnea in Reading.
Oyster: MY Neh-Neh! MY Neh-Neh!
Radzer: Oh, sweetheart, I'm afraid Nea's in Reading. We might see her at Christmas, if they come to stay. And you know what? They'll have a new baby.
Oyster: New beh-beh?
Radzer: Yes, they'll have a new baby.
Oyster: (thinks about this for a moment) Unny new beh-beh? Unny new beh-beh yeah!
Radzer, Niall and Niall's ma: ...

Comments

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Well, hop to it, woman!

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself told. Though I wonder if he'd be as chuffed by the reality, given that it would not necessarily involve being All About Him.

[ailbhe]

actually can't breathe for laughing

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Does the Oyster know that he can't get pregnant?

[jane-the-23rd.livejournal.com]

I am swooning. I am swooning, swooning swooning. And that's without even being able to SEEEEEE little Unny. Ooooh, so cute, I think I might die.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

HEE! That's you told...

[kulfuldi.livejournal.com]

One can't help suspecting that his initial reaction to the Real Thing might be less than enthusiastic. But for now, he seems to have the wisdom to take a long view of the merits of siblings...

[londonn7.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. When elder sister was pregnant with F, E believed that we were all pregnant, including her father, and herself. Now that I am getting married, she wonders who she should marry, and has resolved to marry her parents. Our weekend visit prompted E to ask my sister why H2B's face was different, noting the considerable weight loss to which the face had been subjected since its last visit at Christmas.