While his dad and I were pulling apart and reworking the living room walls the Young Adventurer was doing his own share of planning and scheming. Here for your entertainment, and to record for posterity the workings of a 6 year old mind, is his To-Do list from Saturday of that week.
An organized life begins young.
If you have trouble decoding this, recall that 6yo spelling, in the tradition of Chaucer’s Middle English, is mostly phonetic. Keep trying, you’ll feel great when you figure it out.* The last item is the trickiest, so I’ll help you. It refers to our after-dinner ritual during the Young Adventurer’s visit, of opening the door to the wood-burner and toasting marshmallows on sticks. The careful selection (pink or white?) and cooking of those marshmallows (a few for himself, but mostly to offer around) became became a highlight of his day.
‘Play with the rope’ and ‘Tie up David’ (yes, I thought you’d be curious) refer to a Houdini-esque game which we (Forbearing Husband, Favorite Stepson, DIY Guy, Young Adventurer and I) invented while sitting in the local tavern waiting for our meals. It involves players taking turns to tie each other up, whereupon the restrained person then attempts to free themselves in the shortest possible time. Amazingly no-one in the pub looked at us twice, or (as far as we know) reported us to CYFS. Rural folks, you see, they know the value of teaching your kid how to tie a few decent knots.
Thanks for visiting us, Young Adventurer and DIY Guy. We loved having you to stay. Come back soon and we’ll tie you up.
* Since Young Adventurer is bi-lingual, and did his first year of schooling in a non-English speaking country, it amazes me that he is managing English spelling at all. I mean, hell, I would barely manage it myself if it wasn’t for spell-check and an occasional proof reading correction from the Forbearing Husband.
i like rope games, too.
Yes? Lassoing perhaps? Tug O’War? Skipping?
“Play Sogs”? Enlighten me, please. The rest I got, feel good too!
Ah yes, another tricky one. It is ‘Play Songs’ (on his computer game). Perhaps he had a blocked nose at the time of spelling.
Love it!!
Totally got it,my youngest not so good at spelling but big on adventure!
Marshmallow toasting a biggie here too
I have various out of the box learners so phonetic cool at our place?
Cowboy Boots readers are rocking the phonetic spelling. Perhaps we should start a movement to reinstate Middle English. 🙂
Now I’d be into that!!
Wot fun:) you gave YA a great time. Love the tying up game – if u do it in the city it’s called bondage. Ha ha – always sed countryfolk have the best fun. Nothing wrong wiv YAs spelling – I understood it all:) dam fone is always correcting me?
Bondage! You seniors with your saucy minds! We’d only thought as far as scouts! Lots of love xxx
The List was written and so it came to pass. Gotta respect those organisational skills!
Yes, all but the Showa! And who needs a showa anyway?
Tric DaveD is my personal favourite. I hope DaveD was suitability triced! (And I personally feel spelling is over rated – why waste time with it when you have a long list of important Things to Do?!)
Hiding in the pantry and shouting ‘BOO’ when DaveD walks into the kitchen is a great tric. People wearing tiaras are naturally exempt from all rules of spelling.
That sounds like an Excellent Tric! And a far better use of time than mucking around with spelling 🙂
Favourite tric for the small person here, is when visiting Granny he will ring the doorbell, then hide around the corner so he can’t be seen when Granny opens the door. She falls for it every time, exclaiming “There’s no one here”.
Amazing how easy it is to tric adults. They just never seem to expect it!