Family time
Sunday, May 25th, 2003 20:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeMy brother and his family are up from London this weekend, so I went over to my parents' house yesterday and today to see them. It's the first time I've seen my 3-month-old niece, and my 2.5-year-old nephew is talking in full sentences now! He is sometimes a bit garbled, but on the whole you can understand him.
He had fun pretending to water us all with the garden hose, and told us that it was broken because it hadn't got any batteries in it (really it's the garden tap that is broken). Then when we were sitting indoors he said, "I'm going to be pretending now. That shadow on the wall is a space rocket." When we said we couldn't see a shadow he said that it had zoomed away. So he's obviously a science-fiction fan in the making. My brother got a box of his old geological samples out of the garage to show to my nephew and gave him a coprolite (fossilised faeces).
The cooking was more awkward than usual for my mother. My aunt has coeliac disease so she can't have gluten and my brother is a vegetarian. On top of that, my sister-in-law's doctor has told her that while she is breast-feeding my niece she should avoid eating all the things my nephew is allergic to. They don't know that it will stop her from developing the same allergies, but it's worth trying.
He had fun pretending to water us all with the garden hose, and told us that it was broken because it hadn't got any batteries in it (really it's the garden tap that is broken). Then when we were sitting indoors he said, "I'm going to be pretending now. That shadow on the wall is a space rocket." When we said we couldn't see a shadow he said that it had zoomed away. So he's obviously a science-fiction fan in the making. My brother got a box of his old geological samples out of the garage to show to my nephew and gave him a coprolite (fossilised faeces).
The cooking was more awkward than usual for my mother. My aunt has coeliac disease so she can't have gluten and my brother is a vegetarian. On top of that, my sister-in-law's doctor has told her that while she is breast-feeding my niece she should avoid eating all the things my nephew is allergic to. They don't know that it will stop her from developing the same allergies, but it's worth trying.
