POST by FRAN: Billy Boy (Oh Boy!)

Billy playing with his Christmas Presents

Every Christmas my Grandparents in Australia, Nanny and Grampy, send us presents in the post. This past Christmas of 2011 was Billy’s first Christmas with us, the Brien family. Billy is a cute, chubby, stubborn, three-year-old who is in love with cars. Billy is from the northwest side of Nicaragua, from RAAN, Waspam and he is my foster brother. So he also got a gift from our Grandparents.  

Raf & Billy

By the time Billy had got to Nanny and Grampy’s gift, he had just finished playing with Granny and Grandad’s (England) present, he had already got the idea on how to tear open presents. We had to teach him how to do it because he was so mad when we gave him a wrapped up present, he didn’t know what to do with it, but he soon got the hang of it! I didn’t like the clean-up time after, there was wrapping-paper everywhere!

He received an instrument: a recorder, a book about race cars plus race cars and a race car track, and a stripy t’shirt. These were from Nanny and Grampy. 

All the Brien kids were sitting on the lounge room floor next to the Christmas tree in the living room. Billy was in between Lorenzy and sezni. Dad was lying on the couch and Mum was in the kitchen making pancakes for our Christmas breakfast. We were watching happy feet on the T.V. (Billy’s choice).

  

Billy played with the race cars ALL day, he loves his cars! But when it came to music practice, Billy wanted to join in, so Mum had to tell him not to play the recorder or he had to play it in his room. Music practice is always in the front room where the front door is. He was playing it just to be a nuisance. He was playing his recorder without changing the note at all! It was really annoying.

Billy gets some Jox. Thanks Family...

Now we have a puppy named Chela. Chela is a very curious puppy, she is 5 months old, and she is a golden Labrador. I named her Chela because she is a light golden colour, and Chela is a Spanish word meaning “White girl”.

Fran & Billy, sitting by the tree

Billy was having a great time with his race cars, until Chela snatched only ONE of his race cars! He suddenly jumped into a two-year-old fit, you know throwing himself down to the floor and screaming for his car! He practically was swimming in his own tears!

We all told Billy to go to his room if he was going to be a baby, so he took the rest of his cars to his bedroom, lined them all up on the pillow in colour order. Then he ran as fast as he could (which wasn’t that fast) outside and hunted Chela down. When he finally caught her he retrieved the chewed up car. He sat on Chela for a minute or two. Then he ran back to his room crying! And these tears lasted for the rest of the day!

This little child needs to learn how to share! He doesn’t like to share anything with anyone! He gets very annoyed at Rafael when he sits on the same chair as Billy. He screams like crazy and runs to his room. He likes to eat my food but he won’t let me eat his! He especially doesn’t like to share with little annoying Labrador puppies!

The cars even get invited to breakfast

He really loved the presents Nanny and Grampy sent, and especially the race cars. This was probably the best Christmas Billy had ever had!