Category: La Lune 1999 – 2008

Can You Put The Moon In My Room Mum

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Written November 2007
I turned the light off in the kitchen before and was holding my three year old daughter Kahleah Celeste in my arms, admiring the full moon that was rising straight outside the window.

We talked about the ring surrounding it and how bright the moon was and how stunning the clouds looked crossing the moon’s path.
All of a sudden she turned to me, grabbed my face between her little fat hands, peered at me earnestly from the tip of my nose and said

Can You put the moon in my room mum

I laughed my head off and we then seriously discussed how I could put the moon in the corner of her room so that it wouldn’t get dark and the scary shadows would go away. So my baby girl and the rising full November moon inspired this simple little children’s night time poem I just wrote.

 

Can you put the moon in my room mum
can you put the moon in my room
it is bright and shiny and full of light
can you put the moon in my roomIt is hanging out there in the coldest night
The glow of a beacon that turns dark into bright
With a blue ring halo that is such a delight
surrounded by flickers of colours competing in fighta meteor streaks across, in a fast flash of white
Oh look there’s a spaceship on a galactic flight
I wonder at the heavens and the universal might
it scares me a little, I hold threadbear real tightCan you put the moon in my room mum
can you put the moon in my room
It will banish the shadows and give me sight
can you put the moon in my room

Kahleah Celeste means “Clear Bright Heavens”

Seth, the Ant and Love.

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Please Read this With My  Blog –
Brodies World – Living With Aspergers Autism.
I am doing this Blog A Bit Backwards today and posting the nighttime before the daytime.
Somehow that seems fitting for this family.

 

Prequel Story

I went to pick Kahleah up from daycare early to get them all ready for the town’s Christmas carnival. I walked in and the kids were down the back. I spotted Seth, Kahleah’s “boyfriend” playing on the ground in front of me. Seths a handsome strapping three year old lad with Celtic dark red hair and hazel eyes. When his daddy and I are in the supermarket you will hear the two kids yelling from one end of the supermarket to the other, like a scene out of Romeo and Juliet meet buying groceries.

Seth : Kahleah Kahleah
Kahleah: Seth, its Seth. Seth where are you Seth
Seth: Kahleah I can seeeee youuuuuu
Kahleah: Look mummy it’s Seth, it’s Seth, it’s my boyfriend I have to go and say hello.
Me: But darling we just said goodbye to him at daycare five minutes ago…

Kahleah pouts until I go up to Seth and his dad, we both sorta stand back looking uncomfortable.  (small country town, not good to be seen chatting (*rumours you know*) We just watch and wait until the two little ones are finished  gossiping about everything under the sun.

My mummies buying some milk
My daddies buying some bread…….
yadda yadda … do adults sound like that to kids?

Anyway when I spotted Seth today at daycare, i bent down in front of him. he looked up and shoved a tupperware container bowl at my nose.

“Look it’s an ant”.

“Yes Seth it certainly is an ant”, I answered, when I finally focused on the microdot climbing around the bowl towards my left nostril.

“I think it’s a mummy ant, what do you think”, said Seth seriously, staring into my eyes and shoving the bowl closer to my nose, so that if I breathed in Seth wouldn’t have an ant anymore and I would be well, choking on ant.

“Hmm it might be a mummy ant indeed.” I say watching as Seth bends down and put his bowl on the ground then get down on his hunches peering over the bowl.

“Do you know where your girlfriend is?” I asked, both of us still watching the microdot ant.

“Oh Kahleahs down on the slide near the sandpit” Seth answered without looking up, while raising his hand pointing down to where I could now see Kahleah, busy bossing some little blonde girls around.

The daycare girls were standing behind me watching and listening quietly and they all burst out laughing at the exchange.

Its so It is funny to them all that Seth and Kahleah have this unbreakable bond at such a young age. To me it is just my kids. My special kids seem to pick up other speical kids.