That the autumn leaves were turning to the colour of her hair…

Anyone?

Quiey day today which was just what was required after a mad weekend. Somehow (in manner of all Cupid Stunt’s clothes falling off) I didn’t get to bed until about 1am so was less than pleased to be woken again at about 7am 🙁

Dentist at 10am for all of us, so Ady went off to work then met us there. All fine and kids were supremely well behaved opening and closing at the correct times 🙂 We are private for dentist which has the benefit of being very indulgent towards the children (receptionist complimented us on our well behaved offspring to which I proudly replied ‘well you’ve caught them on a good day!’) and a very comprehensive service with a webcam on the end of his little poking stick projected onto a screen on the ceiling above the chair so you can see exactly what he is charging you extortionate amounts of cash for! It had the downside of being extortionate! Luckily we are covered with insurance so we continue going and sitting in the high class waiting room with very glossy magazines and childrens’ books instead of slumming it and going NHS! 😉 No further treatment required so insurance has gotten off with a very reasonable (!) £108 for check ups for four!

Came home via Sainsburys where we restocked on food. Was torn between economy food at their competitors but additional spending temptation of clothing and electrical goods. Went for Sainsburys as it has no additional purchases but still managed to buy War of the Worlds cd which I have been coveting for a while. Kids were actually very well behaved there so were rewarded with a kinder egg (Tarly – she is cheap and easily bought!) and a remote control submarine (Davies – not nearly so naive and shirked all sorts of confectionary treats in favour of the 3 quids worth of plastic!). Worth the price of under four pounds for such a stress free experience though, hell you pay that to have it delivered!

Filled the car back up with petrol again and left the kids listening to WOTW – which they both adored although I think the narration was bypassing them a little and intended to stick the car through the car wash (it was FILTHY) but it was out of order so we drove along the seafront to the local-ish carwash. Very dramatic turning WOTW up to full blast while the suds and rollers crashed around us – enjoyed that 🙂

Spent way too long playing on the internet with flickr and stuff early afternoon while Davies played a Bugs Life game on the pc and Tarly played with her aquamat. I then got an attack of the guilts for not doing ‘stuff’ with them so the next time they came in the lounge I shutdown the laptop and urged them to bring me books to read to them 🙂 Did a couple of story books then did a count to 100 stickerbook with Davies and a Letterland book with Tarly. Frankly as ever when trying to do something remotely educational (or indeed offering individual attention to one or other of them) they end up just competing for my attention, I get cross and neither of them ends up getting much out of it 🙁 I don’t really know why I bother as they are so self sufficient and happy playing their own games they are probably best left to get on with it while I carry on doing my thing and make myself accessible when they need me. Davies did quite well with his book though and as numbers 1-10 were sat there in a line we talked a bit about addition and subtraction and numbers which add up to 10 etc (played with 2 and 8 so took in number bonds too) and then we did a book with some of the alphabet missing and he was surprisingly good at knowing the alphabet order and writing in various missing letters with minimal help and very impressive letter formation 🙂

Ady arrived home shortly afterwards and read them another couple of stories then it was bath and bed for them. I made a couple of phonecalls and stressed about all the things I need to get done this week before drinking 3 glasses of wine (Ady, who is in charge of the week day ban on alcohol deemed that as we missed out on drinking last night we could carry it across to tonight instead!), cooked a lovely dinner (taco shells and flour tortillas with avocade, onion, mayonnaise, chilli sauce, spicy chicken and cheese) and Ady put lots of photos in his new album. He has intentions of one day putting them on his blog but that’s a whole other thing 😉

Tomorrow we are off to pick your own and Highdown gardens to meet up with Liam and Lily and Mel (school holidays) for fruit picking, picnicking and running around.

This week I must:
– ring CV lady first thing tomorrow about possible employment 🙂
– ring round a couple of places I have in mind for locations for Halloween party
– sort out uploading to website with text (not forgotten Tim 🙂 )
– plan out kids autumnal wardrobe and make a start at getting together anything they need for holiday