Man #1: Daddy
Daddy likes to sing a lot of opera to Ian. Sometimes he walks around holding him and sings. In this case he sang to an elevated boy (don't ask me why).
Ian seemed quite happy listening to this song, except for one high note (a high b-flat, Doug tells me), which made him sad every time it came around. He would make his pouty mouth (see below) for the duration of the high section, then go back to smiling.
Man #2: Uncle Greg
Today was Friday, which made it an Uncle day for Ian. Daddy may be strange, but Uncle Greg is much stranger. Today they did many things.
Ian got to pull Greg's hair. He likes pulling hair, but recently he has gotten good at it, by which I mean it is very painful for the person owning the hair:
Uncle Greg decided that Ian should have a hammock experience today:
(Btw, Hermit Thrush, here he is in the yellow dog outfit. Where's the dog, you say? Well, Greg and I had a difference of opinion about which way the outfit goes, and Greg won for today . . . )
Speaking of things in trees, here is the dome-in-the-woods where Uncle Greg has been staying:
Tenting inside a dome may be kind of cool, but it's not nearly as cool as living in a yome. Ian visited a yome yesterday. Here he is with the yome in the background (with the whimsical smoke coming out of its yome chimney). Never heard of a yome before? Silly you.
2 comments:
A yurt I've heard of. Is a yome a cross between a yurt and a dome? It looks quite nice, but how warm is it?
And why does Uncle Greg think the dog should go on the inside? Dare I ask? But I'm glad to see it fits, and thanks for mentioning it-- before I read the text I stared really hard at the picture, confused as to where the dog had gone!
HT -- Very good, a yome is a cross between a yurt and a dome! I don't know how it would be on a very cold night (not colder than Greg in just his tent, presumably), but it seemed quite spacious and warm when I visited. For me the major downside would be lack of plumbing . . .
Regarding the dog outfit, the dog is not on the inside, it's on the back! The buttons are on the opposite side of the dog, and Greg argued that they should go on the front, otherwise Ian would have to be on his belly to be changed. I think this is where we run into an age issue -- a lot of the clothes that fit Ian are designed for older children who are likely to be sitting up or standing when being dressed . . .
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