Friday, March 26, 2004

This is an ex-parrot

I hate you, I hate you! I'm going to tell Mummy on you and you're going to go to prison. I hope I never see you again. Amazing what can happen if you take your five year old's lego bricks. Zoe was absolutely outraged that I'd taken her Pattern Parrot apart to help Johnny build a bigger space ship. Here's a Pattern Parrot: She's been building them since she was about three, and I have no idea where she got the name Pattern Parrot from. Here's one in its nest: Addendum Jill got back from her girl's night out and I told her about Zoe's tempest, how she threw all the cushions of the sofa and hit me while she raged. Even wrapping my arms and legs around her and saying, "I love you, and when they take me away to prison I'll still love you, and when your mother comes to visit me and cries because I'm in prison I'll still love you," didn't calm her down. Johnny and I built a new Pattern Parrot for her but it wasn't good enough. She grabbed it and smashed it to pieces on the ground saying it was a useless parrot, a pathetic parrot. She didn't stop until I asked her to show us how to build a proper Pattern Parrot. Furiously she grabbed bits of duplo and led us in a search for a head piece until at last she had built the one above. Then she was happy again. Jill asked me what caused it and I told her to go and read my blog. Spontaneously, without moving from her seat, she just looked at me and said, "It wasn't about a Pattern Parrot was it?" Apparently there was a lot of this going on while I was away in Scotland. The Pattern Parrots are sacrosanct. We don't know where she got the idea from. She just built one one day and announced that it was a Pattern Parrot. She really is the most gorgeous creature on the face of the planet. 10:02:56 PM