This morning I had a brawl with mummy.
Mummy had given me my breakfast and brushed my teeth and got
me dressed, and then she sat on the bed in my nursery and asked me to bring her
my hairbrush.
This happens every morning, and normally I am happy to go
and get my hairbrush from the shelf that it lives on, and to bring it to mummy
so that she can make my hair fluffy … but today it occurred to me that maybe
mummy should stop being so lazy, and get the hairbrush herself if she wanted
it.
So I shook my head and said “no”, very seriously.
Mummy put her stern face on and told me that if I didn’t
bring her the hairbrush, then I would have to sit on the landing. I thought
about this and decided that it would be better to sit on the landing than to
let mummy win the brawl. So I shook my head again, and mummy put me on the
landing and left me there for a bit of time. While I was on the landing, mummy
went back into my nursery and kept the door shut behind her, and I knocked on
the door with my hand and made dog noises. I kind of thought that mummy might
laugh at this, because it is usually very easy to make her laugh, but if she
did then it was a very quiet laugh that I couldn’t hear.
Then mummy opened the door and let me come back into the
nursery, and she asked me if I wanted to get my hairbrush yet. I didn’t, so I
said “no” again, and mummy put me
back on the landing.
This happened many times, and in the end I realised that I
was going to have to be the sensible one and go and get the hairbrush, because
mummy was far too stubborn and lazy to back down. And also, I was getting bored
by this time.
Anyway, after I had finally had my hair made fluffy, the day
became much more fun. Mummy packed me and my things into our car and we went to
pick up her friend Heidi, who lives near the beach. Then me and mummy and Heidi
went to the beach to play, and we had a lovely time.
First we went to a café for lunch, and then we went for a
walk by the water, where the wind was very blowy. Then we went down onto the
sand and Heidi made a bridge and I squashed it. While Heidi was making her
bridge, mummy was digging a hole in the sand. Heidi helped her by finding a
plastic lid that had come off some kind of tub, and giving it to me so that I could
scoop sand out of the way.
I didn’t know what the hole was for, until mummy picked me
up and put me inside it. Then I realised that she wanted to bury me!! For a
moment I wondered if this was about the hairbrush brawl earlier, but then I
decided that it was probably just because mummy is strange.
Mummy filled the hole back in with sand that covered my legs
and went all the way up to my tummy. Then I had to kick my legs hard and shake
the sand off me to escape. We did this a few times until mummy and Heidi got
bored, and then they decided that we should walk some more. I didn’t really
want to come away from the beach, because I was having fun playing with the
sand and getting buried, so I shook my head when mummy said that it was time to
go, and sat down on my bottom and refused to move. But then mummy and Heidi
walked away up a path and I couldn’t see them any more, so I thought I had
better follow them in case they left me there and forgot to come back and get
me.
Mummy put me in my pram after this and I must have fallen
asleep during the walk, because the next thing I remember is being put back in
the car ready to go home.
We dropped Heidi off at her house, and then me and mummy
went home to find daddy.
I was very hungry after this very busy day, and I ate all of
my dinner up very fast. When I was getting ready for bed, sand kept falling out
of my clothes and I made a nice pattern of it on the carpet for mummy to clean
up. She will have to do this when I am sleeping. It will serve her right for
burying me earlier.
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