I Have A Cold

Sorry my wonderful readers I've been sick with a head cold and have been in a fog for a few days, still coming out of it as I find myself not even being able to type very well which I do for a living, I'm pretty fast and accurate but when you have a head cold everything is difficult, you feel confused all the time, wandering around, wondering where was I going, what was I getting, oh yeah...no I lost that thought again! Forming words impossible, every word I say has a "duh" sound "at'd the'd end". Again the fog is lifting and I am feeling more myself, now I only ask myself a few times a day where was I going, what was I getting...my norm!

You know how kids just say the funniest things without meaning to? My niece Irene used to call the Wizard of Oz, the "Vizard of Oz". Better my niece Jessica could not say Irene. She was Direne for years. We'd say Jess, say "I", which she could say and then we'd say, now say "rene", which again she could say, but put them together and she always came up with Direne and looked at us like we had three heads, I'm saying what you said!!!

My nephew Robert used to say "hold you" and put his arms out for you to pick him up. His dad, my brother Joey, told him, no, say "hold me". Then Robert said "hold you me". Joey loved it. He never corrected his kids when they were that age anymore, he would say whatever word or phrase the correct way to them and let them learn it the right way at their own pace, he enjoyed hearing Robert say "hold you me" and missed it the day he said "hold me".

Bella, Robert's little sister by 4 years used to say "am-i-nal" for "animal" and it was absolutely adorable. Robert corrected her one day and Joey passed along his secret...Robert, enjoy it while it lasts, she'll say it right soon enough. And Bella did but in the meantime, Robert loved to hear her say "am-i-nal" and the look on his face enjoying her was as precious as hearing her say "am-i-nal".

Which leads me to "I have a cold".

When my brother Michael was little, probably around 3 or 4 he got a little bowling alley game, downsized, something you would set up on the floor. Every time Michael rolled that little ball down the lane to knock down the pins he said "I have a cold". Every roll. Why? He saw a TV commercial for cold medicine where a guy bowling said, "I have a cold". Michael assumed that's how you bowl.

I have a cold.