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Date: | Mon, 6 Jan 1997 10:50:29 -0800 |
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I have followed the suggestions about an appropriate big brother gift for
an impending birth with interest.
My builder and I have shared some interesting experiences in putting up
what I call my "dream home" in the past two months. One involved
transporting my refrigerator into the house via an excavator (for those of
you unfamiliar with such things, it is a VERY LARGE with tracks like a tank
tool with a bucket on the front that can move 3 yards of dirt (that is a
LOT of dirt!) in one scoop and another scoop on the back.) Jokingly, my
builder told me he might move the fridge into the kitchen via the sliding
glass doors off the dining room. My eyes bugged out and I said, "surely
you are joking!" He smiled and nodded. The next day, what do I see going
up the hill but the excavator with Gordon (his partner) at the controls.
Sitting in its box in the bucket is my refrigerator! Ack!
I raced upstairs saying, "Oh my God!" at every other step and imagining the
thing crashing to the ground and how much it cost, etc..
For lack of the tape measure check in advance, 3/8" prevented the fridge
from getting in that way, so they had to bring it back to the garage and
start over the next day with a dolly (not nearly so dramatic as that
testosterone-enriched big toy for big boys!). As a result of that
adventure, however, I christened my refrigerator "Pegasus" and for
Christmas, I got the builder a boy excavator and three kitchen appliances
(one a refrigerator).
He has an 18 mo old daughter. When the family came over yesterday, I
presented the builder with a note from Santa about moving refrigerators
(with and without owners present!). His wife said, "Look at her! She LOVES
that truck!" whereupon I learned that grandma had dictated that her first
grandchild should only play with dolls. According to mother, she prefers
"daddy toys."
Is anyone surprised?
PS While here, she also spent many happy minutes running around the living
room carrying one of the dog's toys!
Let's hear it for variety in playthings!!! :-)
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Ferndale, WA USA) [log in to unmask]
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