My brother is coming to visit around Christmas time. He lives in WA so it's a very long time since the boys saw him. With that in mind, I probably need to stop referring to him as "your crazy uncle Fox"
Here's why.
May 2008
I was teaching Bundle & Cherub to play cricket. We found the bat I used when I played in the under-12s at my local club. It's an "All-Pro" signed by Sunil Gavaskar, for those who may be wondering. Bundle quit reasonably wanted to know why there was a big scoop out of the back. The answer was that my brother decided that having a scoop out of the back of his SS bat seemed to help Australian Captain Kim Hughes so he thought he'd try it out on mine.
I suppose I shouldn't feel too bad about the fact that, in the course of trying to explain that one to a 3 year old, I used the phrase "your crazy uncle" at least once.
June 2008
We took the boys to see the house where I grew up. As I was showing them around, I said "This was your Uncle Fox's room. Bundle said "He's the one who put a hole in your bat. He's crazy, that one"
I resolved to stop mentioning my brother for a few weeks in the hope that the whole thing would be forgotten.
October 2008
This had been working well until I told the boys that their cousins would be visiting this Christmas and, in a moment of weakness, accidentally let slip another reference to their father, crazy Uncle Fox.
Bundle said "I didn't know he was CRAZY".
He then thought for a minute before adding "Didn't he put a hole in something?".
And, a moment later "Hey, let's play cricket".
There's really not a chance that this will have all been forgotten by Christmas.
I guess I should stop referring to my sister in law as " your mad Auntie Poet" sometime soon.
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They don't forget. You just think (and hope like crazy, excuse the pun) that they will.
And don't be kidding yourself that spelling things works for long either, I'm finding that one out the hard way.
In fact, anything you might say is fair game once they reach a certain age, which is why when I told Grizzlewick that a monopoly property cost $100 this evening, he responded "That sounds reasonable".
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