January 12, 2007
Rolling Eyeballs..it Runs in the Family..
Do you remember the post I left a while back.. something to the effect of
"Joel! Put your eye back!" ?
I've discovered that Papaw's eye does the same thing! It's his right eye too! Same as Joel's! It's genetic! I don't really know why they do that, lazy eye maybe.. I'm certain Joel was never electrocuted.. so I'm guessing Papaw wasn't either...just a fluke of nature.. though Mom said that Papaw's mother had him late in life.. (used up all the good stuff earlier on in life?) but Bonnie had Joel early in life.. so .. all I can think is that it's genetic. And there I was thinking that Joel had a loose wire in behind it or something! What a relief!
Click the above image to better see what I'm on about..
Love his heart, it reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell Tale Heart".
I'm glad though Mikyla or the other gals didn't have it...and weren't born with it...I mean.. Not that it's a bad thing, but women are more sensitive (I don't sound more sensitive, I realize, just I'm explaining something) about accepting things like loose eyeballs than a man would be...and I'm thinking of a time when later in life.. the girls are wanting to marry and I can just see the guys running from them, laughing behind their hands, saying things like "Oh no! Ol' Wall-eye-Mikyla wants to get married, but I wouldn't ever know if she was looking at me or the backyard!" Whereas women are all.. "Aww.. God love his heart, he has a lame eye.. He's looking at me like a loyal little puppy dog, I bet he'd make a wonderful husband, I want to take care of him, I want to see if I can't fix that eye for him..."
You all know that's pretty much the straight on truth.. and God forbid one of the girls had that loose eye, AND were chunky as Mikyla tends to be.. or clumsy with one eye rolling around like that, as Mallory tends to be.. that would be pretty cruel, now wouldn't it?
Anyway.. I will remember to help Joel learn NOT to say the prayer.. "Oh Lord, please make my eye like the other one." (2 loose eyeballs wouldn't be cool at all!)
Okay, okay, enough of that.. now on to more somber things. Kelly was released from the state home for .. *coughs* I won't go on about his mental condition at this time, it's another one of those sensitive topics I don't seem to do very well with, but here's a picture so you can all see that he's up, out and back to himself again...
These folks are Papaw's neices and his nephew, Charlotte, Betty, Ike and Mary.
And this last shot is of Joel all made up like a girl.. (*laughs*.. no Jana, I didn't do that because we were talking about it just yesterday, Bonnie took this picture night before last, I swear!)
Mikyla got her report card.. no, they call it a 'progress report' these days.. all S's and O's.. she did great! Way to go Mikyla!! Nick got his too, he did very well too! You two are awesome! Good job!! So far Mallory hasn't gotten hers. Her teacher said they should be here Thursday, but they didn't send them. Maybe they'll have them ready on Monday.
Mikyla talked to her Mommy earlier today, but she didn't get to talk to Roy.. so She called his cell phone later tonight... but only got the voice mail. Sarah called back about 5 minutes later... just to be sure nothing was wrong here.. and when she found out everything was okay, she had to go.. the music, she said, was too loud there at TGI- Friday's to be able to hear us.
Let's see.. what else is new around here.. Maegan is starting to talk up a storm. She's singing Ringy Roundy Rosey.. and she walks around saying "Happy Happy Day" a lot.. with that big smile, those big blue eyes. She's a living doll. :)
Bonnie and Kelly brought Joel over for a while this evening - they wanted to go with Matt to shoot some pool.
I guess I've babbled incoherently enough for a while. G'nite world!
Posted by juel at January 12, 2007 11:20 PM