Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Nemesis

This past Saturday, late in January, after the chaos of Christmas presents and birthday presents, McPie walked with the kids to Sears, to stock up on socks and underwear.

They came home with this:


A toy, but it does actually work. Apparently, Ben used his birthday money to buy it (and got change; he now has several twonies instead of a twenty, and is certain he came out on top of the transaction).

I cannot fathom why McPie would approve of such a purchase. I can only assume that the neighbours at the far end of the block called to complain that they couldn't clearly make out the detailed content of Ben's top-volume chatter. They felt left out of the community, because everyone else in the neighbourhood knows what's going on in our kid's life on a daily basis.

We are all about neighbourliness. At the expense of our own eardrums and sanity.

1 comment:

Trixie said...

hee hee. give it two week, three tops, and ben will have moved on (or broken the mic). sadly, the neighbours will have to go back to peering in your windows to get the skinny.