Not really sure where this morning went. The children did some stickerbooks – Davies started on an Usborne dinosaur atlas one but could probably have done with some support and Tarly did a ‘my first 100 words one’ which again she was capable of but probably needed slightly more cheerleading than I was up for giving. They did end up working together on the first 100 words one after Davies realised he could probably read the words for Tarly to find the stickers for, but they still wanted constant ‘well done’ and ‘hurrah’ from me 🙄
They then went off to Davies’ room to play with the wooden traintrack – Brio – alike stuff. Which geomags aside probably represents the biggest amount of cash spent on kids toys in our house and is really quite underplayed with actually. I packaged up some ebay parcels, packed a picnic and we headed off to the park via the post office.
At Tarly’s request we listened to ‘the Martian song’ – War of the Worlds in the car on the way and then some Vicious Vikings. We arrived at the park before anyone else so we sat in the car for ten minutes or so listening to a bit more about the Vikings until the heat overcame us and we needed to get out of the car. It was allegedly Home Ed group today but only Julie and Lucy had confirmed coming and indeed that was all that arrived. Which was fine as it goes as the six children all get on well as do the three of us.
We sat eating picnic food while the children played. I was hugely proud of Tarly who managed to climb through a sort of climbing frame tunnel, turn round and climb down the other side, which was slightly heartstopping to watch but impressive in a ‘my brave baby girl’ sort of way. True to form having watched Tarly do it Davies decided if she could, he could so he did it too. Love their relationship and the way they challenge and bring each other on. 🙂
We left around 2.30pm as Lucy had somewhere else to be and Maisie was not feeling well. Once home D & S played in Davies’ room for a while with the train track and then they went to Tarly’s room and played with her make up. They both reappeared with faces painted – Tarly like a ‘lady’ and Davies like a ‘clown’ complete with vivid nail varnish each 🙂 They had some toast for tea while I cleaned the nail varnish off Tarly’s carpet 🙄
A big bath to wash off two days worth of yuck and as I am ‘home alone’ and couldn’t face two sets of bedtime stories I read them a book of their choice each and one of mine in the bath instead. Tarly chose a Charlie and Lola/ Lulah book, Davies chose a story about a spider and I chose Monkey Puzzle by the ‘Gruffalo people’.
They were both asleep by 8.30pm and I’m enjoying a dinner Ady would hate (pasta with pesto, parmesan and pine nuts served with home made garlic bread) and watching whatever I want on TV and sitting with my laptop without having to pretend to listen to work related conversation 😉 . Ady meanwhile is living it up in a hotel, ordering whatever he likes off the menu with beers paid for and a night’s sleep with a guaranteed no middle of the night children but has texted me to say ‘whatever I want from the menu, beer for free and I still miss home. It must be love’ which of course made me melt and wish he was here…
And that would be about it for today :-).