Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: In Jessie's Hair Salon

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.

11 April 2010

In Jessie's Hair Salon

(Jessie comes over to me with a brush, some hair elastics and a bottle of detangler.)

Okay Mummy. I'm going to do your hair, okay? Now sit still...

Now don't skeem or ky, okay?

Now stay still! Now look up (brush brush) ... now look down (brush) ... now look up (brush brush brush) ... now look down (brush brush) ... now look up (brush brush brush) ... now look down (brush) ...

There! All done!

Wait. Now stay still! Don't skeem or ky. Now look to side (brush brush) ... now look to other side (brush) ... now look to other side (brush brush) ... now look to other side (brush brush brush) ...

There! All done!

Now stay still. Now don't skeem or ky. Now look up (brush brush) ... now look down (brush) ... now look up (brush brush brush) ...

There! All done! You look boo-ful.

(Thankyou, sweetheart.)

13 comments:

Swift Jan said...: naww how adorable! Hehe I know why she was instructing you to not skeem or ky... hehe; 11 April, 2010 21:36
veiledturnip said...: So precious...
'grelinc'; 11 April, 2010 22:02
Heather said...: What? No "after" picture??? Now I may skeem and ky!!

Love it!; 11 April, 2010 22:34
Givinya De Elba said...: Oh dear. I forgot to put in the numerous times she got the spray bottle of detangler and went "Skirt skirt skirt..."; 11 April, 2010 22:51
Unknown said...: naww so so so so so adorable...!!; 11 April, 2010 23:45
Jen said...: Aw, that's so sweet.; 12 April, 2010 03:11
Tracy P. said...: So very cute! You ARE boo-ful! ;-); 12 April, 2010 03:55
CynthiaK said...: So cute!! Now where's Mum's "after" photo? Hmm? ;); 12 April, 2010 13:17
Joy said...: I'm so proud of you for not skeeming or kying. hehe.

Love that picture of your little hairdresser.

♥ Joy; 12 April, 2010 14:09
Allegro ma non troppo said...: That's fantastic! Perhaps she could brush her cousin's hair sometime.; 12 April, 2010 16:07
Givinya De Elba said...: There may be some skeeming and kying.; 12 April, 2010 22:06
Lindethiel said...: Gorgeous!!

Good on you for not skeeming or kying :); 14 April, 2010 20:24
Heather said...: Still no after pictures? *sigh* I think you need another visit to her salon, stat!; 14 April, 2010 22:42

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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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11 April 2010

In Jessie's Hair Salon

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