Talking to Nan

When he isn't busy having pretend conversations on his "mobile" Linus rather enjoys being allowed to chat with his Nanpops on the real telephone. I suspect he enjoys these chats a bit more than his Nan who is subjected to half an hour of Linus picking up random objects in his room and singing songs about them that seem to be mostly made up words with things like "monkey" or "Cranky the Crane" interspersed. We sometimes overhear him telling Nan that "no, can't calk a daddy yet". Oh how we laugh. It is possible that we enjoy these phonecalls even more than Linus, or in fact his lovely (and very patient!) Nan.

Yesterday, in a sleep deprived haze, we walked down to the Post Office to send a parcel. Unfortunately our journey was fraught with hazards. Firstly the pile of dog poo someone (somedog?) has kindly left just outside our garden. We managed to sidestep this, which is lucky because our dog-poo-off-shoes-cleaner (Grandma) is out of action right now. We then met with a nasty step that threw Linus off of it and onto the pavement. He was holding a letter which meant that he saved himself on his knuckles which came up covered in bits of gravel. It turned out that he had also "ouched" his knee, and needed to go to "hofftital" which was a bit annoying really seeing as we hadn't even managed to get 2 minutes down the road at that point. I decided to take a stand and fix the knee myself with the promise of a Kinder Egg. This thankfully worked and we got to the Post Office in record time, despite someone shouting "OUCH" with ever step he took (clue: it wasn't me or Gabriel). It was here that I discovered that we had in fact forgotten to bring the parcel to post. And oddly our Post Office has no post box for Linus to put his letter in either. We could of course have handed it over to the post office lady, but I sensed an impending tantrum had the letter not been placed in a red post box by Linus himself. So, we set off again to find a post box. Unfortunately on the way the "ouched" knee got worse and worse, despite the chocolate and a toy treatment. We managed to make it home all in one piece, avoiding being eaten by a scary looking dog and remembering not to walk in the dog poo again. You'll be glad to know that there was no lasting damage to the knee, it recovered well with playing and watching CBeebies.

Other things Linus has done this week:

• Looked after Grandma, who has a new knee.
• Drawn his first ever picture of a person (Aunty Melly. Awwwww!)
• Made me a Mothers' Day present at nursery which I don't know about yet.
• Been shopping with Daddy this morning "for no reason"!
• Been tricked into eating a bowl of soup by our clever use of reverse psychology