Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Buzz - half as old and terribly cute

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.

20 November 2010

Buzz - half as old and terribly cute

Some of you notice that my kids are growing up fast! I tend not to notice because I see them day after day, and the changes happen without my knowing. But I've been going through my photos and videos to back them up, and I remembered this one video that was taken when Buzz was half his current age of five and a half - he was two years and nearly nine months. This video took me back to the little baby voice he had, and his capacity for memorising large chunks of text that we'd read to him hundreds of times.

Enjoy this. For my U.S. friends, when Buzz says, "Whales don't go to slayp (sleep)", that's just a weird vowel he used, it's not some twisted weird Australian accent going on there. And his reading of the final page wasn't entirely accurate, in case you were wondering what manner of weird sect we might belong to.

8 comments:

Hippomanic Jen said...: Too cute. How fast they grow!; 20 November, 2010 20:36
Andi said...: that was too cute! I have a video of my 10 year old "reading" The Monster at the End of This Book.

Yep. My kids memorized Sesame Street books. Yours memorized Bible stories...; 20 November, 2010 23:02
mamahasspoken said...: Aw, I love his sweet voice with the way too cute accent. I know, it's not an accent to you but here it beats adding an r to words that aren't suppose to have it.; 20 November, 2010 23:45
Tracy P. said...: Ah, that sweet little preschool voice. Love it! He's so expressive!; 21 November, 2010 07:49
Swift Jan said...: I too had forgotten little N's voice! How clever and cute he is!; 21 November, 2010 17:41
veiledturnip said...: How clever to read that before the age of 3! What good parents you are to have read it soo many times to help with this feat!!; 21 November, 2010 17:54
Joy said...: Loved hearing him read the story. I especially liked the way he said Jerusalem.
So sweet. I know you are so glad you filmed this.
♥ Joy; 23 November, 2010 13:41
Givinya De Elba said...: Aroo-falem! I love it too.; 23 November, 2010 19:19

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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.

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20 November 2010

Buzz - half as old and terribly cute

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