Climbing The Wall & Shaking Your Tail Feathers

Adventure #1:
Today I found a Spiderman outfit, it almost fits. I've seen Spiderman on TV and he can climb up walls. How does he do it? I can't seem to get a grip... maybe Mummy has polished it with anti-grip, I never see the Gek-Geks* walking on the walls this low down. If I stand on this stool maybe I can get high enough to get a better grip just like the Gek-Geks get. For some reason my spidey-fingers are not working. OK, I'll just use Mummy's 'precious' uni project to get a better grip. **FLASH** "What are you doing?" Oh no it's my arch-Nemesis Daddy Gorg, and he has a camera and a look which spell trouble (even though I don't know how to spell, I know it spells trouble with a capital Tru). Quick, act cool, think quick and talk your way out if.

'I'm climbing the walls, Daddy. I don't have a car to drive up the wall, like Mummy, so I have to climb... Hey look at my muscles aren't they big?' Daddy's laughing... yay saved by the Dragon's Tummy Man.'

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*Gek-Geks are geckos, because that's the sound they make all the time, Gek-Gek, Gek-Gek, Gek-Gek.

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Adventure #2:

Dragon thinks he's a chicken, we sometime pretend to be baby birds and try to fly, but we just can't get the flying right, we fall most of the time. Dragon had a good idea the other day, he took Mummy's feather duster and stuck it down his pants... now he looks like a real chicken. He wore it around for quite a long time, and it made me cranky, all those great tail feathers and no shaking them... 'Come on Draggy' stop scratching around on the floor and give me that rooster tail. I'll show you how to use it right.

This is how you shake your tail feathers... it drives the girls wild, just listen to Mummy screaming now!

-Lion McTavish.

Here chookchookchookchook...

Here comes the chicken, here comes the chicken, chicken down the road...

We went and saw the chickens. Good to my word I took the boys to visit the chickens at the produce place yesterday avo. I had told them there would be baby chicks there and I was a bit concerned because we did a lap and didnt see any. I have never been there and there's been no chicks so I felt sure that telling the boys we'd see some chicks would be fine, I was starting to get worried. Second lap I heard the tell tale chipchip, chipchip of some chicks and we followed it and found 24 little chicks. Lion asked what the sign said "Hold for...." and I explained that someone had bought the babies and was going to come and pick them up later to take home. "What does that sign say mummy" *Meat Chicks $3.50each* "that just tells you how much they cost darling". He is just starting to make the connection between the animal and the food and it is very worrying for a little boy that often pretends to be an animal! On our second time going back to look at the chicks one of the ladies that work there got one out for the boys to pat. Lion was right in there straight away giving it a very gentle stroke on the head. Dragon was standing back until mummy had a little pat. Then he didnt want to let her put it back.

We also saw a large duck that Lion kept calling a swan. I think I saw it's chest puff up a bit at that :) it's cage wasnt closed and both boys had to have a little stroll into the cage to see what it felt like to be in the ducks cage. There was lots of different chickens and roosters. Lion said one had a scarf on (it did have a very fluffy neck) and some others had pompoms on their feet and some looked like they had bubbles on their heads!! Then we moved to the cage birds... Budgies, Finches, Pigeons, Cockatiels, Peachfaces, Doves, and some other sort of parrot looking thing. We saw a forklift filling the hopper for the bags of feed they were filling, we saw an old rusty shoot off a harvester type thing, we saw and old wringer and petrol pump, mummy found the hay stuff she wants for her taters, we saw a chicken cubby house that Lion wants to get when (if) we get chickens, we saw some little nesting boxes and we bought some fruit! The boys thought it was great and didnt want to leave! When I finally got them into the car I asked what they thought of patting the chick. "yeah" says Dragon (standard answer) "oh mummy, it was soft... and it was warm... and it was... oh it was beautiful!!!!" says Lion, what a darling! I had joked with Lion while we were there about putting him in one of the cages, at dinner when we were filling in daddy with everything we had seen Lion told me "I wouldn't put you in a cage mummy, because I love you too much". Hmmm, can we say "guilt trip"!!!!

Oh, I forgot to tell you we also SANG to the chickens!!!!!! They got a very dodgy rendition of "Chicken Talk" because that is what they were doing, and Lion was asking why they had just put their eggs on the ground and I reminded him what the song says so he wanted us to sing it for the chooks. LUCKY CHICKENS!

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I have been meaning to post this one... We were in the car and Lion was reading the spotlight catalogue. He got very excited over something and I asked what it was "it's a quality, low cost, pirate dress up" um, I think he sees too many Budget Car Insurance ads.

Sunday School

Lion has started Sunday Scool this year. It's a big step. Last year he went to sunday school but he wasnt actually supposed to, we let him join in for the singing at the start and pulled him out when they broke into their classes. He loves all the craft they get to do even though Mummy McT can't get him to co-operate at home to make or draw anything. He recently made a hat which on the way home he discovered could also be a chooks beak. I will leave the explaination there and let the photos do the talking...

Dragon just wanted to be in on the photos, it didn't matter how much Lion pushed and shoved he just wouldn't get out.