Drag-lish

Dragon hasn't seemed to grasp his native tongue as well as Lion could as his age.

His strangest one is the use of the world 'anymore'.

Sometimes he uses it for punctuation. If you are tickling him or Mummy is singing and he wants you to stop he says:

Stop that! Anymore.

But my favourite one is when we pull the plug in the bath, if he is still in the water when it starts to gurgle and form the vortex he starts panicking.

Dad! Get ti ti ti MEow-ti ti ANYMORE! Don't ti ti ti go. Down. Drain
anymore. ANYMORE!

I couldn't understand why he was afraid of the plug hole, until one day Lion was singing a song.

Baa Baa Black Sheep have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir three bags full.

One for the Master and

One for the Dame and

One for the little boy who lives down the DRAIN!

Possibly also because I told him that he shouldn't stick his... um,.. his finger.. down or he might get it stuck.

Sorry no photo's of Dragon "freakin' out" but here's a normal bath time occurrence. It's a small snippet from 'The McTavish Bath Time Gospel Hour'.

Time for some honesty...

After this post about our frog-eating-friend now dubbed "Cranky" Wolf was told pretty much that he was a big chicken for not rescuing the frog with this comment from his little sister...

I mean, what harm could a 60cm non poisonous snake do to a big man? Especially when it has a huge frog 1/4 way down it's throat?

So in reply wolf posted this. Which recieved these comments...

Wow, that is so coooool !!! So how big was 'big brother'? Does this make them 'cranky' & 'crankier'? What a great BBQ story you've got now (though would have been cooler with the fang marks to show for it !!)

and

You could have lied and said the scratch was from the fangs of the snake. But you didn't, so you are not just a big, strong man - you're a big, strong, honest man. But you'll always be my little big brother. That snake is lucky I wasn't there coz NO ONE attacks my brother!!!!! By the way, are you going to send that into funny home videos?

and within minutes of posting it he recieved a very concerned phone call from his MIL checking that he really was okay.

I had been suggesting we add an ammendment after only 1 person thought it was real, (which was when I first saw it) Wolf needed 3 people to believe him before he decided that he should submit a retraction. Actually people believing him was fine, it was his sister calling him honest that really made him think perhaps he should let people know it's not real. And if we are being really honest, we have no idea how to get our own videos on here anyway so it certainly cant be in our drain. I did inform my mum that she should have realised it wasnt real because if Wolf had discovered that snake in the drain beside our house I would have called her saying "get some beds ready, I'll be there in 10 minutes with the boys and all we need to survive until someone catches that thing".

So appologies from Wolf to those who believed him and consider this a warning from me... Dont believe everything you read on the net. Especially not if it involves Wolf McTavish!!!!!

-Mummy McT (and the first snake really was real and really was in our back yard, HONESTLY!!!)

WOW That Was Close

Our usually dry drain got a little damper than normal with the rains. The first shot is standing with my back to the side fence and looking out over what is usually a grassed drain. It would be easily a few metres deep at the drains lowest point. The next photo is Lion and Wolf standing on the concrete entrance to the storm drain at the end of the street. This is after the water had receded a fair bit. The water had stopped flowing down the storm drain in the street and was starting to pool at the street side opening. A few days later there was a big eel, dead, about 2m from where the boys are standing (but down in the drain) at it's thickest it was about 20cm diameter. We aren't sure if it got washed there or if someone threw it in there. Either way it was gross and wriggling with yucky maggots. Not Nice! -MMcT