{"id":978,"date":"2011-01-18T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2011-01-18T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:17:13","slug":"random-memories-the-purple-fat-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/random-memories-the-purple-fat-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Memories: The Purple Fat Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes out of the blue while doing something completely unrelated a long forgotten\u00c2\u00a0 memory surfaces. Sometimes these are about something TBK said or did. I’ve written before about how I regret not documenting more his younger years so I’ve decided as they come to me I’m going to try and blog them, they wont mean anything to anyone but me, but I just don’t want to lose them again. Here are the first of two remembered this week.<\/p>\n

When TBK was really little, when his language skills were less developed and he wasn’t as self sufficient as he is now he had some plastic toy zoo animals, and one day playing in my parents back garden he was trying to ask for one of them….<\/p>\n

“Can I\u00c2\u00a0 have the hit-mut-hos” he asked, repeatedly, with both me and my mom trying to figure out what he wanted “THE HIT-MUT-HOS HIT-MOT-HOS” he demanded getting increasingly frustrated at our lack of understanding. <\/p>\n

This went on a short while until he stopped dead, looked at the floor and finally looked up at us and asked<\/p>\n

“Can I have the purple fat one”<\/p>\n

His lateral thinking as he was getting increasingly frustrated made my parents and my day and for a while afterwards every Hippopotomus was know as “The Purple Fat One”<\/p>\n

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Sometimes out of the blue while doing something completely unrelated a long forgotten\u00c2\u00a0 memory surfaces. Sometimes these are about something TBK said or did. I’ve written before about how I regret not documenting more his younger years so I’ve decided as they come to me I’m going to try and blog them, they wont mean … Continue reading Random Memories: The Purple Fat Toy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[320,104,105],"tags":[323,321,211,322,564],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memory","category-parenting","category-the-blonde-kid","tag-hippopotamus","tag-lateral-thinking","tag-memories","tag-speech","tag-the-blonde-kid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-fM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":215,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/sweet-dreams\/","url_meta":{"origin":978,"position":0},"title":"Sweet Dreams","date":"July 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I was tucking the blonde kid into bed last night he suddenly looked at me all serious then lay staring at the ceiling... me: What's up baby? tbk: Just thinking.... me: Oh what about? tbk: I don't know just lots of stuff me: Like....? tbk: You know just lots of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Family"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":211,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/05\/02\/what-goes-around\/","url_meta":{"origin":978,"position":1},"title":"What goes around…","date":"May 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This week has been BUSY, everything is changing and it seems to be happening at 100mph, I definitely feel like this evening is the first real opportunity I've had to relax. 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