Me and Ady are watching some obscure music channel with a ‘Pop Heaven’ show and having a competition to guess the tracks first. Ah the fun we have chez Goddard on a wild n crazy Friday nite! 😆
This morning I took Davies to Toysrus to peruse the shelves for birthday present inspiration. We’ve got the Xbox sorted – we’ve raised half the funds on ebay and my Mum, Dad and brother are chipping in for the other half as Davies’ birthday gift so that doesn’t feel like ‘real money’ when it’s coming out of paypal really. Obviously he’s having his party too but I still want him to have some gifts too. So he and I walked the store twice with him allowed to look at whatever he wanted, not be chivvied along and just able to run to whatever grabbed his attention. I can’t decide whether his quiet and unarguing acceptance that we can’t afford *whatever* he wants is something to be proud of or desperately sad about really…
He liked a k’nex remote control kit – he’s got a bit of k’nex so I’d be quite happy to add to that and he does love a remote control gizmo. He was after another remote control car (he got Herbie for Christmas and wanted Lightening McQueen too – I said he already had one and he said that it would be good for when Lije came and they could play together! :lol:). He also liked a Wallace and Gromit puzzle which I said we could maybe frame if he got it and then hang on his wall – we have various framed jigsaws that I’ve done over the years around the house, mostly of places we’ve been surrounded by photos and other momentos of the place e.g. Las Vegas, New York etc so that might be nice for his bedroom. He quite likes Oidz from the TV ads so we looked at those and then he saw Cube World. I am utterly ignorant about all things gaming but we had thought if we were going to go ahead with an Xbox then an additional portable game would be good for him to have in the car or otherwise out and about. Obviously gameboy etc is out of the question so I’d thought of some other handheld type thing. Cube World appears to cut it really – he hasn’t stopped mentioning it since, apparently he’s seen a tv ad for it and lo and behold when we came home he found it in the Brightminds catalogue that had arrived this morning too, so it must be educational ;-). I’ve tracked down a W&G game on ebay for Xbox and told him he can have the other one if he gets birthday money from his Great Granny, if not then he can wait til Christmas and I’ve spotted a couple of science experiments that I would quite like to get him and know he’ll enjoy even if they wouldn’t be something he’d choose off a shelf himself. So feeling quite happy that his birthday is in hand again.
On the way home we stopped at a big Sainsburys. He’s generally run down and has a coldsore on his lip, a scab on his chin, a twitch in one eye and is getting lots of nosebleeds. The camping last week coupled with excitement about his birthday and the stress about Malice (he’s really quite distraught at the idea of her dying) had really got to him. Sainsburys had all their summer kids clothes at half price or less so we got about six items each for them – all tops – for next Summer for just over £30.
Got home to find Tarly painting which she’s not done for a while so Davies got his paints out too and painted an excellent picture of Wallace. Jack and Maisie had posted Davies and Scarlett a picture each that they’d coloured in so Davies had drawn a tractor and written ‘to Jack Love Davies’ on it. Tarly wanted to send Maisie a butterfly so got Davies to draw it for her and she coloured it in 🙂 like that girl’s delegation ;-).
Then my Mum arrived and we took Malice to the vets.
And that about brings us to tonight. Which is including wine, bagels with chicken, bacon and home made chips.