Anakin's Personas

I wanted to mention that we MOWED the block last weekend. It's only ever been slashed before so it was a bit rugged and fairly slow-going but the end result was pretty fantastic I thought (if a dusty hill is your kinda thing). Dad and his lady Di met us out there with their Lawn King so we had two ride on's going for over two hours to get the job done. I had dust on my teeth and grass right down in my knickers but it was a bloody good thing all the same.

Anakin has been right into role-playing for ages. He two most favourite "personalities" are "Baby Kira" which he usually plays after his warm bath - he makes us wrap him up tight in a towel and we have to pass him around all gushing over him and remarking what a beautiful little newborn baby he is. He won't talk when he's being Kira - just looks around all wide-eyed and serene. It's nice to actually nurse him like a proper baby coz when he was tiny we'd try and lie him back in our arms like most babies are held and he'd do stomach crunches to try to get upright. Anyway maybe he thinks if he pretends he's Baby Kira he can go on having Titty as long he likes, considering I've been letting him know that he can't go on having it forever, that he's getting to be a bit too old now.

His other favourite is "Frisky" the puppy dog, when he can get away with licking everybody. He pants and scratches and runs from one of us to the other, all hyper, he burrows his nose down into things looking for lizards and toads. And we pat his tummy and give his bum a good scratch. (Or the other way 'round I should say.)

He spends most of the time being someone else and if you call him by his name he'll correct you going "No. Luke! The Coconut Man." (Luke is a friend of ours who is always dropping in green coconuts.) Then he pretends to chop open a coconut for you and you have to pretend to drink it up.

He's also in the habit of riding to the shops on his bike with his pockets full of money. We all put our order in and he goes and picks up the fish burgers with pineapple and mayo' and the vanilla milkshakes....

Speaking of food, Greg worries about Anakin not eating enough. But it's just that he eats massive amounts of breakfast (huge bowls full of mulberries, cherries, toast, wheatbix, nuts, black sapote smoothies...), then goes fairly hard at lunchtime (crumbed fish, tuna and crackers, peanut butter sandwhiches, noodles...), then he kinda tapers off by dinnertime when Greg is home, opting for things like toothpaste and lipgloss rather than fettucine or vege curry?? If Greg contemplated the whopping Jabba the Hut poos Bubby leaves behind in the potty, I don't reckon he'd concern himself again.

Just call me Girl Interrupted, I think I'll have to settle for lots of shorts posts..