Well we went where the days go today. sadly as Tarly had been up from 1.45 – 3.45am last night and after not going to sleep til gone 10pm Davies was still up at about 6am all of us were pretty tired and wrung out 🙁 Ali had been working until 4am so we were hardly a group full of sparkling wit, energy and vim and vigour. Ah well! Davies requested War of the Worlds to listen to in the car so we played it really loud and sang along to keep ourselves awake!
We sat and chatted while the kids played and then Ali had this *fantastic* idea of walking to the local park. To prevent the children from knowing what she was suggesting she offered the chance to me as ‘shall we go to the p.a.r.k?’ and off we set. Within moments of arriving Tarly was screaming at me and stamping her feet about me refusing to push her on the swings, Freya had removed her wellies and was running outside of the gates and Davies was sitting atop the slide yelling for us to watch him. Ali quickly decided she ‘hated the f.u.c.k.i.n.g. p.a.r.k. and we dragged three protesting children to the local shop for sweets. Except it was shut so we dragged them back home again!
Did manage a vaguely educational chat with my two about the leaves falling from the trees, the wind, why they rot away and therefore raking them up into piles is actually a complete waste of time and effort and picked some from the ground in various levels of decay to demonstrate. We did stand for a short while waiting for some to blow from the trees but it didn’t happen! They did do some halloween colouring and some sticking courtesy of Ali’s printed out stuff though, Davies did some writing of his name and recognised both his and Scarlett’s names on paper and they played nicely.
Left there and and they wanted Peter and the Wolf to listen to this time so we did and chatted about the instruments a bit and laa’d along with it. Got home and they watched it on video (Disney’s mini classics from ebay ages ago) then we got some plasticine out and made little figures of ourselves in the style of Wallace and Gromit which was good.
Ady came home, curry is in the oven, Tarly faded fast and is already in bed fast asleep and I don’t think Davies will be far behind.
Tomorrow I’m having my hair cut first thing and then Ady is going to watch Portsmouth in the afternoon so I’m planning some more Halloween crafts with the children, possibly while I read aloud to them a bit about the background behind Halloween and the various customs and symbols. Also need to plan in some time for baking too, so might sort out the recipes we’ve got in mind, make a list of stuff to buy and work out what day we can fit that in too.