We picked him up from the Big O on Tuesday. He wasn’t at all about "are we there yet?" in the car. It was more like — we’re on the way!!!
He’s ten. TEN. Yup.
Yesterday we went to the Build-A-Bear Workshop. He made a bear. I made an owl. He turned his into Darth Maul bear with a few additions, but I just got mine a sweater vest. Afterwards we went to (Don’t look, Allison!) Joseph Beth’s to buy a couple of Beverly Cleary books (Whom my nephew had never heard of!) and have lunch.
What kinda ten year old has never heard of Henry, Beezus, Ramona, or Ribsy? And still be related to ME! Situation remedied.
Then we went to Whole Foods to pay too much for some delicious things to eat. Turns out the kid had never had fresh blueberries or a scone. EVER.
My nephew has a fondness for good food, but not so much for good food that is slow to be served (He’s used to McDonald’s, pholks — another reason I bring him up to see me from time to time).
Now I have to stop blogging so my nephew can get online. Apparently he doesn’t have decent access to the internet in the Big O either.
Pholks, he’s using dial-up.
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It’s about time you updated, woman. Sheesh.
My nephew brought his friend up from Phoenix. The kid has never seen snow or cold. I have been laughing my butt off since he got here. My oldest brother thought it would be funny to tell the kid that in the cold you have to go out and kick the gas meter every now and then to keep the gas from freezing.
Last night he kept going outside. (It got down to 3 degrees last night) I finally asked him what he was doing. It was too cold to keep going out there. He told me what my brother said. We laughed for hours over that.
I’ve not had a decent snow yet! It stayed in the 20′s the last couple of days. The big giant puppy loves it!
You are the kind of aunt I aspire to be. The cool one that teaches them lots of new things and gives them stuff their parents don’t.