The Bean and I are at Smokewood. This means that for portions of the day, Bean's attention is turned from me to other members of the family, that means that she has lots of others to TALK to.
I have recently mentioned that her talking has reached a new, unbelievable level. I thought that it couldn't get worse.
It did.
At times Leslie and I are convinced that she has gone without oxygen for several minutes- if not entire hours. I am not kidding here. She is no longer The Jackhammer- now we call her Hacksaw.
So, this morning, the adults were all out, except for myself and I was crocheting. This means that Brevin was left defenseless against The Hacksaw. For nearly an entire hour, he put up with non-stop commentary,suggestions and instructions! Eventually, he walked down the hall and frantically jiggled my Dad's bedroom doorknob to be let in. It was like a scene form a murder mystery- really. He approached the door, anxious and needing in, the door was locked, he jiggled frantically while glancing over his shoulder as Bean came toward him, chattering and instructing....the door opens....Brev slips in and ... SLAM!!! closes the door in Bean's face. Escape complete.
Bean did not miss a beat. She huffed a bit, and came to me where I had the pleasure of a 5 miinute re-cap of the activities that she had guided Brev through over the past hour. It didn't matter that I was 5 feet away during the hour of play. It didn't matter that I reminded her of this. She just HAD to tell me. I HAD to listen.
I couldn't help but laugh during that hour as I listened and watched. The two of them really are funny together. Brevin does have the perfect personality (sometimes) to deal with Bean. He just sort of does his thing while she talks and he throws out the occasional "yeah beam" and he sort of complies with her many requests. When he's had enough- he dissapears for awhile. Sometimes though, he does freak out and he starts picking at her and then before you know it, they are having Smackdown 2009 Version 12 or something.I wnated so badly to record her endless shatter today , so you would all kow that I am not making this up- however I had no video equipment with me.
Here is a written sampling:
brevin brevin oh my goodness i have an idea we can build a castle lets build a castle we have these popsickle sticks we can use ok ok grab some of these and help me move these out we dont want to spill any we want to move them over her because we want to make a surprise for del-del dont we brev/ we want to surprise your del-del right? (yes beam) oh okay lets do that oh wait these are not sticking oh my lets ummmm oh i have an idea (now she whispers--lets get some lip gloss)(they run into the bathroom and grab two huge tubes of fruity lip gloss and then start applying it to the tips of the sticks until I intervene) oh well that really wasn't going to work anyway ok let do this lets use pillows and blankets and make a seceret castle wouldn't you want to play in a secret castle? (yes beam) ok well, hum ok lets grab these pillows from the couch we need moere though could you do me a favor and get some pillows off of grandpa's bed? (yes bean- and he trundles off) but remeber to let grampa know that you are borrowing them because crime doesn't pay! okay brev BREVIN OKAY? (yes beam) (then he marches into Dad's room for a pillow raid and tries his best to explain what is going on) okay let's do this put that here, no here, NO HERE (otay beam) oh good now lets.......no brevin don't put your feet THERE (kicking sound ensues) agghhhh! brevin that's all my work you are messing up ! goshamightymastersartkit!!! what are you doing? stop. sigh. see what you have done? you have totally destroyed the secret castle now where are we going to sleep? (oh it's otay beam) no it is not (yes it is don't hab a hard dattak) chatter chatter chatter.......ESCAPE...... recap to mama and on and on and on
God help us every one....
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