Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Happy Birthday Wee Bro

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

14 March 2010

Happy Birthday Wee Bro

My Wee Brother is ageing.

I would need to do some arithmetic to work out exactly how aged he is though.

I can tell you, he is older than he was in this photo:

I loved him even more than I loved this dress:

THREE children: imagine that.

He became proficient at sleeping ...

Hey! Socks & Sandals for EVERYONE!

And while going through his old photo album, I found this last gem:

The birthday girl that day was three. She held up four fingers and I said "stuff you" to the camera.

9 comments:

CynthiaK said...: Those are so great! I love the always sleeping shots...brilliant!; 14 March, 2010 04:00
Tracy P. said...: Happy birthday to the sleeper boy! Those are all priceless. :-); 14 March, 2010 05:57
Emily Sue said...: Ha - did your mum cut your fringe?? My fringe was at the same angle in most of my childhood photos. :D; 14 March, 2010 14:02
Allegro ma non troppo said...: Those are three weird looking kids. Hey - next time Wee Bro's in town, we must re-shoot one of those pictures, just to prove to the blogging world that we actually turned out quite gorgeous.

LOLing at the captions!; 14 March, 2010 19:32
Swift Jan said...: HAHAHAHA Thats hilarious "stuff you" indeed!! LOL

Happy B'day wee bro!; 15 March, 2010 07:28
veiledturnip said...: Love the sleeping shots! Hilarious!
'diameno'; 15 March, 2010 09:56
Alison said...: I love the pictures--he certainly was quite a sleeper!; 17 March, 2010 06:35
Hippomanic Jen said...: I can't believe that your parents look scarely any older and you three do. If you're not careful, and this trend continues, in another 20 years and you'll look older than they do.

Scary thought?

Happy Birthday, Wee Bro; 17 March, 2010 11:28
Givinya De Elba said...: Now what on EARTH am I supposed to say to THAT?

"Have you SEEN my parents lately?"

Er, no. Perhaps not.; 18 March, 2010 21:49

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This is the story of me, Givinya de Elba, and my adventures with Mr de Elba, my children Buzz, Jessie, and Woody and our dog, Bullseye. We have plenty of good times, some weird times and a huge dose of drama.

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I am a part-time speech pathologist, and try to cook, keep a garden alive and take photos that don’t make us look like we are pharmaceutically affected or dangerously homicidal.

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I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'

In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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14 March 2010

Happy Birthday Wee Bro

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