My children are weird

When going down to the shops for some Christmas shopping last Saturday Anika, Hubby and I were discussing how you can get gift vouchers for almost anything for Christmas. At this point we happened to pass a funeral director and Anika said, "You could even get a gift voucher for a funeral. How about that for a back-handed present?"



Meanwhile Lloyd has been busy putting his mechanical skills to work. During the renovation he decided that he'd like to get our grandson clock ticking again since it has spent the last few years tick-tockless on the wall after something didn't seem to work in it. Being one for noise he's set it up in his room.
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He got it going in a nice state of tick-tockness and was pleased when he got the bongs going too. The problem was it was bonging 11 at 8:30 am in the morning and 5 at 11:50 am. After investigating the various types of spanners and screwdrivers we have he's got the bongs right now but I noticed yesterday that it's four minutes slow. Maybe he should use that watch his uncle and aunt gave him last Christmas.



Matt has been growing at a very fast rate at the moment but it doesn't seem to affect his co-ordination. A couple of nights ago he was drying a plastic cup and dropped it. It fell onto the bench, bounced then went over the side. He caught it deftly and exclaimed, "Wow, I've got great refluxes Mum!"



It's amazing the difference one vowel makes.