Sunday 7 September 2008

I think they are aliens

First Born and Second Born, when they are not torturing each other, often play together. Their games are lengthy, complicated, entirely in their imaginations and most of the time I don't want to know the details. I suspect I wouldn't understand them even if they were explained to me.

Occasionally however we catch snippets and can't help being intrigued. Sunday morning, for example. I had sprung crawled out of bed early in order to go to Sainsbury's when it is quiet enough for me to get round without plotting how to kill people in my head. I came home bearing shopping including a baguette (well it was actually a pain flute but anything long and bready and stick-like in our house is called a baguette). To digress slightly, I find it hilarious that our children pronounce "baguette" like Flight of the Conchords do in "Fou de fa fa", ie heavy french accent followed by "haw hee haw".

Anyway, while said children were cutting and buttering themselves some continental bakery product, they were still playing. And all husband and I could hear from the kitchen were two very Scottish boys repeatedly saying, in very convincing deep south Alabama type american accents (think Cletus from the Simpsons): "Ah'm gonna hunt me a car. Here, car-y car-y car-y car-y" I'm pretty sure I don't want to know anything about that game. My head is screwed up enough already.

14 comments:

  1. That reminds me of a story my uncle told me about his son when he was about six. All he could hear from the bedroom was a southern drawl saying, "Me? I'm the cowboy with no pants. What's it to ya?"

    Open door to reveal wee boy with holsters, hat, guns and nothing else.

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  2. Oh to be young enough to enjoy playing with food like that! LOL!

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  3. Any game that comes with fake accents has to be fun.

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  4. I love Flight of the Conchords. Having your kids imitate them is hilarious.

    In our house baguette is pronouced "bread"...

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  5. We never had baguettes when I was a kid, that was posh food.

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  6. I definitely just laughed out loud in my office.

    Must be a fun game!!

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  7. Coffee all over the monitor when I read that.

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  8. Blogger did something wonky with my name link. Pah.

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  9. Ah, what a shame you couldn't have recorded that little bit about the car! That's exactly the kind of thing it'd be great to look back on in ten years time!

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  10. Big surprise, your kids sound awesome!

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  11. Ha ha ha...I love the games that kids invent. I get to overhear some of them too at the Library. ;)

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  12. I wonder if my kids will be so adept at imitating a scottish accent when they are your kids' age? Got any good scottish shows I should be showing them now? :D

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