I was having problems with my wisdom teeth and had to get them taken out. My six-year-old stepson overheard me talking about it and was very concerned. “Hannah, if you have to get your whistling teeth out, how are you going to whistle?” He’d just lost his front teeth and was able to whistle through the gap – so he thought I was getting my front teeth taken out! He’s now very impressed that I can still whistle.
Hannah Stones, Dunedin
Food for thought
oiss Five was eating an apple and kept nagging me about a topic I’d already had enough of. “Just drop it, will you,” I said. “What, oum?” she asked. “The apple?”
oaia’s oum, Tauranga
Star pupil
oy friend is a teacher and was giggling as she marked homework from one of her nine-year-old pupils. She was teaching them about similes, and for “As hot as…” he’d written “Angelina Jolie”.
Aquarius, Auckland
Little rocker
A few weeks after the Christchurch earthquake, I told oiss Four we’d had thunder and lightning. “I don’t like thunder and lightning,” she said. “or anything else that makes the house shake!”
Ko Baynes, Waimate
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