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The children and Ady (and I suspect I’m not far behind) have come down with colds. No one seems to be suffering more than a few sniffles really but it probably goes some way to explaining yesterday.

Did lots of muffiny tasks this morning like putting away clean washing, getting another load done, going through the freezer to get dinner out for tonight and organising what is in there a bit and drinking lots and lots of tea 🙂

I did some writing and spent a rather nice and peaceful hour in Tarly’s room photographing a load of outgrown summer clothes and listing them all on ebay.

The children played with Davies’ leappad, the Dora house, the megablocks and the toy cars, the plasticine, the monkey business game and a load of soft toys.

They watched Roobard & Custard on video (D likes the animation style) and loads and loads of Discovery Kids, I also heard Mr Ben drifting in when I was in Tarly’s room too. Retro kids TV R us! 🙂

While they were eating dinner I was looking at animation and cartoons on the internet and stumbled across the Pixar exhibition at the Science museum again. I’ve decided I’m definitely taking Davies to it, I think he’ll like the background to films and animation side to it. I’m pretty sure we’ll go up on Tuesday 3oth so if anyone wants to join us or meet up there before or after then do yell and we’ll sort something out 🙂

When they’d finished dinner Davies asked if they could do some drawing so they did some pictures and when he brought his over to show me I showed him how to make a really simple two picture animation of someone waving. That escalated and we did one of a snowman melting, one of a cuckoo clock, one of a fish jumping out of water, one of someone yawning, a banana peeled and unpeeled and finally someone happy with hair and sad with no hair! So that was popular 🙂

Just as the children were off to bed I had a phonecall from CV lady offering me a rush job private CV to do – double the payment for hopefully not twice the work although there is five emails worth of attachments and information to dig through to find the relevant stuff so that might take some time. It needs to be back tomorrow night so I’ve printed it all off and had a quick look through it but the plan is to do some tomorrrow morning and finish it tomorrow night if I have to.

Tomorrow is the second session of HE group so I’ll need to come up with some activity to take to that – might take the flicker picture idea actually cos if Tarly can do that (and she can) then it shouldn’t be too taxing for any of the other littler ones there.

And that was today. Davies actually said to me at teatime ‘we’ve had a lovely day today, there’s been absolutely no shouting!’ 🙂 Which is not totally correct but it was certainly characterised more by cuddles, them playing while I got on with stuff and altogether less stress than there was here yesterday.