SLOBBERDOLICIOUS!

Hello Friends,


Tammy said I must do this for her on Slobberdogblog … she said I must say … -Tammy, Tammy, I love you!-

Slobberdog is MUCH happier these days. There are now windows and doors on the garage and he has a lovely warm room and he is SO VERY HAPPY! When Mommy gets up in the morning, she has to open the door for him now, so he can go and make a wee. Then afterwards he was sitting outside in the sun looking so happy. She said ... "Oh my SLOBBERDOLICIOUS! JUST LOOK AT YOU!"  I thought that was so funny!  I ran inside and grabbed the camera and took a picture so that you can all see why she called him SLOBBERDOLICIOUS! LOL; LOL; LOL; LOL; GROSS! Now I want to tell you about the end of the World Cup. We all feel quite sad that it is all finished now and there are no more games to watch. But then again we are happy because we could go back to school and have fun with our friends.

Today we have a huge surprise for everybody. First of all, we decided that we are going to tell you our real names. Jay’s name is Jesse, and my name is Kieran. We thought that since you know our brother’s names anyway, that you should know ours too. But there is another very good reason why we want you to know our names.

One day last week, Mom, Joanna and Pippa went to a Conference. It was important for them to go to it because it was a Kids Rights Conference. Even Archbishop Tutu was there and lots of important people!

When they came back, they went straight into the Nest which is the nursery for the newborn babies. Then they came out and they were all smiling. And they told us - Jesse and Kieran we have a big surprise for you! We thought they were going to give us a present.

But then they told us that identical twin baby girls came in today. And they are TLC’s J & K babies for this year. Jesse and I were the J & K babies for 1999. So they decided to call the new babies Jessica and Kiera! We got so excited! We were jumping and laughing and leaping and ran straight to the nest. There we found the most beautiful baby girls you have ever seen in your life! And they are called after us. I wanted to bring them into the Main House right away, but Mom said, No, they have to stay in the Nest, they are very tiny, Kieran.

We thought that we could keep the babies – like they could be our own little sisters and we could keep after them forever. But then Mom said, NO! When they are old enough they will have to be adopted. Well! What kind of a surprise is that? They are going to take them away. That’s terrible! I don’t see why we can’t keep them. That was just so cruel. Aaaw, they are so beautiful! My baby is the one in pink.

I didn’t want to keep them! I just wanted them to be my sisters for now, until they are adopted. But in the beginning I have to admit I was kind of sad that we could not keep them. But actually we have a big enough family, I think. It will be nice for them to have a small little neat family. But it would be nice to have two more in our family! LOL


Yesterday when Lizzie was in the Nest she let me hold Jessica. And Jessica opened her eyes and smiled at me. She really did! Then she stuck out her little pink tongue. Then I realized that she actually wanted her dummy. So I gave it to her. It was so nice to see that little smile.  My baby is the one in yellow.

Well, the Football World Cup is over now.  But the last game was exciting, wasn't it?  I was cheering for Spain from the beginning of that last soccer game. And Crispin was also cheering for Spain. But Crispin cheered for them from the very beginning of the World Cup, except of course for Bafana Bafana. He was so clever, from the start he said that Spain would win. But only on that last game, I decided that I would cheer for Spain. I didn‘t like the Netherlands so much as Spain. I only like them a little bit because my mother’s ancestors are from Holland. But I noticed in their other games that the Holland team was very arrogant.  I never told anybody.  I just thought it in my heart.  So I thought I would cheer for Spain, instead.  Mom said she didn't mind.  But I wasn't like Crispin who cheered for them from the beginning and knew that they were going to win. I think that was so clever of him.  Here is a picture of Crispin wearing his Spanish scarf.

Well, not SO clever! What about Paul, that poor octopus? Kieran, that was an OCTOPUS!  Well, he did such a good job and predicted all the countries that were going to win and he was right ... and then the Germans wanted to make paella out of him? Maybe they thought that if they did that then Spain would lose. LOL! Get it? Paella is a Spanish food. Yessss Kieran!  You saw that on the TV.  Well, if they wanted Holland to win, they should have cooked him before the game. But I don’t think they really wanted Holland to win because Holland and Germany are not great friends, or so my Mom says sometimes. But I don’t know why she says that. I just remember that she did. They put a kind of cup thing in the octopus’s tank and Paul the octopus was all around it and then he opened the lid and chose the country because there was food in there that he liked.

Well, anyway, Kieran its my turn and I was talking about the Soccer. So Crispin and I were cheering for Spain but the whole family was cheering for Holland. We weren’t in the barn that night. It was too freezing cold so we all packed into Mom’s bedroom. It was so squashed and noisy! We thought nobody was ever going to score a goal. It went on and on and on. Even though they never scored, we were all cheering because they DID NEARLY scored many times.

But then, out of the blue, this guy de Jong from the Hollands team jumped up and kicked Alonso in the chest. We were all shocked. The whole room went dead quiet. We couldn’t believe it. All you could hear was our whispers going like this: … g-o-s-h … o-h...n-o … w-h-a-t...t-h-e...h-e-c-k? … t-h-a-t-’s... t-e-r-r-i-b-l-e…
T-h-a-t...o-k-e...n-e-e-d-s...a...r-e-d...c-a-r-d! Then I looked at Mommy and her eyes were wide and both her hands were over her mouth. She said nothing. And de Jong never got a red card, only a yellow one. It was unbelievable. They sent our goalkeeper - OUR LOVELY ITUMELENG - off for making a small mistake and gave him a RED CARD and this man nearly killed somebody and he got a yellow card!!  NO NO NO there was something fishy about that!   Then everybody said … NO! WE ARE NOT CHEERING FOR HOLLAND ANYMORE. NOW WE ARE CHEERING FOR SPAIN! So, the whole room started cheering for Spain. Except Mom. She just sat there quietly, looking sad and disappointed.

Then when Spain got THAT GREAT goal … HOW COOL WAS THAT! We were lucky that our screaming didn’t break the bedroom windows. It was SO exciting. We were all grabbing each other and dancing round and round and Crispin went screaming and screaming up and down up and down and up and down the passage. He was SO happy! We were all happy. Except for Mom. I said, “But Mom they played dirty. That was the biggest foul I ever saw!  You’re not supposed to play dirty.” And Mom looked at me with fire in her eyes and said … “JUST LEAVE ME ALONE JESSE!” And then I said, - But Mom, at least admit that they were very arrogant! -- I thought Mom was going to explode. She yelled -GET OUT OF HERE JESSE! -- Geeee Whizzzz? But then later on Crispin explained to me that Mommy is a very loyal person. And her parents were from Holland so I should leave her alone.

The other thing I wanted to tell you was about my dream. Becky Johnson bought me the DVD, JAWS. Remember that I said I wanted JAWS because it was one of my birthday presents that I never got because my Mom could not find it.

When I told my Mom that Becky bought it for me and Mom said maybe I should wait till Mom and me can watch it together, because it is very, very scary. She said that my cousin, Katja, in Holland watched it when she was a teenager and after that she was afraid to swim in the sea and even sometimes she was scared of swimming in a pool.

But then Mom went to the Conference and I thought I would be brave enough to watch JAWS by myself. So I did. But I was quite terrified and I fast forwarded with shaking hands and panting breath to get past the scary bits. So that was how I watched it, but I DID watch it and saw enough to be scared. VERY SCARED! When Mom came home I immediately told her that I watched it and she said, Oh my gosh! Weren’t you scared? And I couldn’t lie to her, so I looked down, nodded my head and I showed her the box.

Then that night I went to bed and had a dream. I dreamed that I was at the seaside. So I told my Mom in the dream – I am going to swim for a while. And she said – watch out for all the sharks, Kieran. And I said – Mommy please stop teasing me!

So I was swimming and when I was swimming I was closing my eyes and I just touched the net with my foot.  Then I opened my eyes and I saw a SHARK swimming and then I’m like … - Oh my gosh I swam all the way to the Shark’s net. But strangely I wasn’t rushing … I was just floating peacefully and then I felt something touching my leg. So I looked back and I saw this huge shark. I said to the shark, - Shark, if you are friendly ... because I can’t swim well now, my legs are much too tired, can you please take me on your back to the shore? And JAWS nodded his head. So then I got on his back and he told me he was a Protector Shark. We kept going straight for a while and then I saw a killer whale. I jumped on the killer whale’s back and he was also going forwards and then I jumped back on JAWS’ back and then JAWS took me to the shore.

Then in my dream, I could read his mind. And he said to me in his mind –KIERAN, COME LIVE WITH ME! And I said no, I already have my family, thanks. I can’t go to live with the sharks because what if your brothers kill me and eat me. Then he said, - They won’t! Just come with me. So I said – No, no, but I will come and swim with you again tomorrow. And he said, Sure, that will be a great idea. And that was the end of my dream.

And then I want to tell you just one last funny thing.  My grandfather (My mother's Dad) his name was this:
Jurjen Albert Willem Schuitema.   LOL LOL .... His initials were JAWS!!!!!  LOL LOL;  LOL LOL

At the end of the holidays I suddenly remembered that our teacher gave us a big file full of work that we had to do during the World Cup. I forgot all about it. I only did a little bit. So I worked very hard for two days trying to get it all done. It was exhausting. I was so tired. But I did manage to finish it because Mom was cheering me on all the time.

So then, guess what? I was the only person in my class that finished it all. And my teacher was so pleased that she gave me THREE STAR BADGES. That is a great thing to get, and normally you have to work hard for a long while to get just ONE STAR BAD. Mommy was really proud of me. So she promised she would try to get me another Justin Bieber CD, because my last one was stolen out of my blue trunk. But I will have to wait because she still doesn’t have much money.

The other thing I wanted to tell you was that Hannah Johnson brought me a book of poems, when Becky brought Kieran JAWS. And I’m embarrassed to say that I cried because I was disappointed. But she didn’t see me crying. The thing is I DO like poetry, but I would have preferred a DVD, because DVD’s and movies are my favourite things. Anyway, Mommy said I should not be so ungrateful. If there's one thing God doesn't like, it's an ungrateful heart.  I’m sorry, but I can’t help liking what I like! But then Hannah did give me a DVD later, it was called Horton Hears a Who? My Mom thinks that sounds weird, but that’s the way it is.  And I love that DVD.  It's great.  So now I'm happy because I have TWO things.  And I do love the poetry book second best of all.

When school started again, I got sick. In the night, my hands and feet swelled up and were very cold and itchy. I couldn’t feel them because they were like numbish. I went down to my Mom’s room because I wanted to tell her that I was feeling bad. But she had locked her door because the catch doesn't work, and the cat, Mrs. Wobbles, usually pushes open her bedroom door and attacks Mom’s cat called Stormy. So I called and called but she didn’t answer because she was fast asleep.

So I went back upstairs and told Zoë and Zoë sent me to Pippa. Pippa told me to climb into her bed and she tried to warm me up. But I was cold the whole night long and didn’t feel good at all. So in the morning Ellen came and pulled off the blanket and I got a big fright. She said – You are late, get up for school. That was the first day of school. So then I got dressed and went downstairs but I didn’t feel good. When Mom saw me, she said – What’s wrong, Kieran? Because she could tell that I was sick. So I showed her my hands and feet and told her I felt funny in my head and my voice was quiet and my heart felt like it was not pumping very well.

Mommy got very scared and called Pippa. She told Pippa to get the SATS machine that can measure how much oxygen is in my blood. That was not good at all, and my heartbeat was very slow. So Mommy told me to take my uniform off and put my pyjamas on and I got into Mommy’s bed and stayed there for three days. I went back to school on Friday.

Here is lunch in Mommy's bed.  The best place in the world to be, especially when you're sick!

Well, that’s quite a lot of news. We will write again next week.

Yeah! I hope we will have something to tell, now that the World Cup is over.  But ... we will have to see ... When I say my prayers at night, I always thank God for the World Cup.  It made our country so happy and for a few weeks we forgot all our troubles.  We also learned a lot.  Now we all know which countries have which flags.  We know their capital cities, we know the languages they speak.  We learned so much.  Thank you God for the World Cup!!   (We also know which countries suck at soccer ... even our own!) LOL! LOL!

Chow for now and see you soon.