LONG Memory

I'm in the kitchen busy with my part of supper (SynAck is braaing (BBQing) the meat) and TLT is finishing off her orange over the basin in the bathroom (incase she spills ;-) ). She obviously finishes her orange and is busy coming out of the bathroom when I hear this "klink, klank, ding" as she obviously trips over the cats food and water bowls.

Now, our cat disappeared easily two months ago, but procrastinator me has not removed the empty bowls from the bathroom yet. (I really should make a plan to remember to do that!)

So TLT trips over the bowls and as she regains her balance she says - STUPID CAT!

How to annoy your mother - Plan 1

Driving home one evening after work, we had just picked TLT up from Peanut, and we had had a rather LONG, boring, horrid day at work (or so I recall it anyway). TLT pipes up from the back seat:

TLT - Mom?
Jade - Yes?
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes?
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes?
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes? (Starting to get a little annoyed, but trying REALLY hard not to show it)
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes? (No longer trying too hard to show the annoyance)
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes? (Wondering whether she is EVER GOING TO GET TO THE FREAKING POINT?)
TLT - Can I tell you something?
Jade - Yes...
TLT - Um............Mom?
Jade - Yes? (HIGHLY GRATED VOICE WITH FRUSTRATION!!!!!!!!!)
TLT - Nevermind...

*GRRRRRRRR!!!!!*

So, we never got hear what she wanted to tell us... :-(

What to do when...

So, you get guests over, and while you are visiting TLT goes VERY quiet, and you just KNOW that she is doing something she shouldn't, and knowing that her latest penchant is playing with SynAck and my pc's... *sigh* Sometimes it's really tough having an overly bright kid!

So, I call her out of the study (after being told she is doing nothing and she isn't there, only for her to walk out of the study door), but 5 minutes later she is right back in there. This time I go into the study and call her out. She was playing around on SynAck's machine, so I warn him to just go and check his machine as she has been messing around there.

Lo and behold - the visitors leave, and when we come to the study - Its MY machine that has been messed up! :-O A whole bunch of new tabs opened on Firefox, my gmail gone and replaced with a google search for tttttttttttt and the address bar filled with nonsense, and then last, but not least - my blogger dashboard in some incomprehensible little squiggle of a language! *sigh*

Thanks to SynAck for the suggestion to open HIS blogger dashboard in IE to get the correct language back... *sigh* Now I'll REALLY have to start locking my PC before stepping away from it...

How to know the Flower Girl is getting bored

My sister recently got married (the Oros Girl one, TWB is still too young - she is only 12). It was a lovely wedding, and fun was had by all, but during the photo session after the ceremony there were a couple of clues that TLT (who was the absolutely GORGEOUS Flower Girl) was getting bored...

First, she started blowing her lips like a horse (can't think of another way to describe it, sorry). Looking idly around swaying her arms, blowing her lips like a horse... RIGHT!

Then, she starts grabbing her braids, pulling them across the front of her neck, sticking out her tongue going "Bleh!" at the top of her voice... Of course, this mostly happens just as the photographer tells those in the proposed picture to smile, so we most certainly have a couple of pictures where the subjects are laughing hysterically at our totally insane little 3 and a half year old...

All in all, a wonderful experience, letting us know that yes - even though she is adopted, she definitely fits in with this Anything but Ordinary family...