Foolish auntie

[mrissa]

Tonight I taught Roo the game where he points the "ray gun" we hang on the fridge* at me, and it makes its ray gun noises and lights up, and I fall down making exaggerated noises.

Foolish, foolish auntie. This game is infinitely funny. My only line of defense was to just fail to get up when he tugged on my finger after awhile. "Missa! Get up!"

I am doomed.

I had something more coherent to say about picking up and putting down books, but I think it can wait for a time when I have not recently had a glass of pinot grigio and then repeatedly gotten up and fallen down.

*Because gaaldine gave it to me for random moments of whimsy

Comments

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

hehe, Roo is the cutest kid!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The ray gun's trigger is its "belly button," he instructed me. I said, "Do you make those noises when someone pushes your belly button? Pshew, pshew, pshew?" And I tickled him, and he said, "No, Wobin makes noises, not belly button." Indeed.

Oh, my

[dlandon.livejournal.com]

that's a rather scary indication of the level of his intelligence, that he can make that distinction! And you are soo going to regret starting this one...giggles.
- D

Re: Oh, my

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If I come to regret it too much, we can "lose" the ray gun until I'm willing to play again. "Oh, honey, I'm sorry, it's just not here any more." But in the meantime, I'll try to play it on the carpet, because the tile is cold.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Robin: 1
Mrissa: 0

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Um, no.

Robin: 6
Mrissa: 0

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

You must be a fun auntie.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's what aunties are for. There's no sense to being a dour auntie. You might as well go off and be some other kind of grown-up at that point.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Darn tootin'.

[perigee.livejournal.com]

I must note that my kid nickname was also Roo.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

That is very cool!

Do you know the reasons behind your nickname coming to be?

(Roo started, originally, when I looked at the little red ape-thing to which I had given birth and thought, "Nope, don't know that he looks like a Robin." We tried various permutations: Rob (too old-sounding), Robbie (better), and finally Robbie-Roo, which shortened down to Roo.)

[perigee.livejournal.com]

That's easy. I was a backpack child. My parents' friends would often say to me, "Now Roo, dear. Remember what you promised!" Sometimes it made me cry because I couldn't figure out what I'd promised. :>

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Childhood nicknames are dangerous that way. My dad called (ahem; calls) me Sunshine, and sometimes they would sing "You are my sunshine" to me, and I would cry and cry. Finally it came up when I was about 12, old enough to explain to them why it upset me. The song says, "Please don't take my sunshine away." Someone was trying to take me away! And all my big strong daddy could do was plead with them not to? This is not good! This is not good at all!

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

I/We did not give it to *you.* We gave it to markgritter (http://www.livejournal.com/users/markgritter/). Naughty mrissa (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mrissa/). Stealing poor markgritter (http://www.livejournal.com/users/markgritter/)'s toys.

Now the poor boy can't defend himself against space aliens, mrissa (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mrissa/)s, and all those other scary things.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's on the fridge.

I was almost sure it came from you at a time when markgritter was not getting things from you. And I'm very nearly positive that it predated joint presents from you and the_overqual, because we had it in our Concord apartment, and you and the_overqual were only seriously joint gift givers in the very last bit of our time in that apartment.