The Green Machine

Joshua had a horrid night's sleep as did Mummy and Daddy of course. Joshua must have been dreaming as at one stage he told Daddy to "get the snake, take it out and shut the door" His dreams can't have all been bad though. After he woke up this morning and hopped into our bed for a cuddle he said "Good Morning" to us both and then said "hold on a minute.... I have a green thing. I plug it in and it has things that goes up and down and has doors. The doors open and close" It sounded very interesting indeed. "It is a sheen" he announced.
A sheen hmmm, "A sheen? Do you mean a machine?" I asked.
"Hang on, a machine, hmmmm yes that's what I mean" (Spoken with a very professor like voice that made me want to giggle)
"It is in the back room. Joshua take a have a look" (take a have a look is not a typo. He really says that) He took a had a look in the back room and the sheen wasn't there. But after breakfast he finally found the sheen. It was in the middle of his bedroom floor. Joshua plugged it in and turned it on. He put a little boy in it (don't ask me where he gets these ideas) and the doors closed and then opened and out came Jessie (from preschool). The second time Mark popped out (Mark is also from preschool but isn't real... confused yet? Try living with Joshua!!) It turns out that the sheen makes little boys (I did consider pointing out that Jessie is a girl...) It is also very noisy. Joshua is very safety conscious and likes to keep tight control of its operation. "Mummy, don't you touch my sheen. It is Joshua's sheen. You don't touch it" Daddy was made to sit on the bed with his feet up so as not to interfere with operation of the sheen. Joshua eventually decided to turn it off as the noise was too much for him.

We went to the planetarium show today so I am wondering what fantastic machines Joshua will invent tomorrow morning.

Joshua loved the planetarium especially the vortex simulator. (A red ball rolled around a yellow piece of plastic with a elongated hole at its centre) He appeared to like the Stardome much more than the zoo. At the zoo he was very quick to want to move on to the next animal and said "Joshua go home now" when we were about halfway. His favourite animals were the servals. Joshua saw the servals and said "they are Joshua's cats" Possessive or what? At the tiger enclosure the only thing separating Joshua and the tiger was a piece of glass that the tiger was squished up against. Joshua was in awe... not of the tiger but of the seam joining the glass. At the cheetah enclosure he was more interested in the information boards which were circular and could be spun. I think MOTAT may be more up Joshua's alley.

I wonder if those vortex simulators are for sale? Joshua was mesmerised........