Geen or Green

A long, long time ago when Tiger was little he pronounced green as “geen”. At this time Grandma N lived about 8 hours away. Grandma N came for a visit and decided she was going to help Tiger learn to pronounce “r” after “g,” such as in the word green.


Grandma N practiced and practiced with Tiger, helping him say Green instead of “Geen”. Grandma N was quite pleased with herself for helping this first grandchild learn to say “Gr”.

After Grandma N left to go back to her house 8 hours away, Tiger looked at me and said, “Mom, do you know how Gama says Geen? She says Grrr-een!” And then he started giggling like that was the funniest thing he had ever heard! Apparently he had just been humoring Grandma N.

X-Box

I had a funny moment yesterday. Elephant was playing the X-Box and wanted me to play with him. The problem with this is that I don’t have a clue how to play the X-Box. I was trying to play Lego Star Wars with him. I couldn’t even figure out how to make my dude move, actually, I couldn’t even figure out which dude was mine! The conversation went something like this:


Elephant: “Follow me Mom.”
Mom: “I don’t know how to make the guy move.”
Elephant: “Push this.”
Elephant: “Use your Light Saber.”
Mom: “I don’t know how.”
Elephant: “Push this button.”
Elephant: “Follow me Mom.”
(Mom frantically pushing every button)
Elephant: “Mom, your not following me!”
(Mom finally figured out how to make dude move, he is now running in circles because Mom can’t figure out how to make him go straight.)
Elephant: “Put your light saber away.”
Mom: “How do I do that?”
Elephant: “Use the same button that you pulled it out with.”
(Mom keeps pushing buttons)
(Elephant’s dude starts hitting Mom’s dude with light saber)
Mom: “Why are you trying to kill me?”
Elephant: “Because you aren’t following me!”

Needless to say, I got my bum kicked by a 5 year old!

-Zookeeper 2