Countdown to the cracking party…

This morning we were watching CBBC which is quite unusual but something caught the children’s attention as we flicked past so we stayed with it. Which meant I was semi- watching Newsround when it came on with the news about Steve Irwin. We talked about that and I was distracted from a post about reaching potential I have been meaning to write for ages, so that is still saved as a draft for another day. The sun has been shining all day today so I cleared a lot of the backlog of laundry which has backed up over the wet weekend. The children played first with the geomags making a massive abstract flat creation with panels which resembled a stained glass window and I would have photographed if they’d not broken it as part of some game they were playing. Crocodile Hunter came on Discovery Kids and Tarly’s current theory (based on some crap my Mum fed her about Malice) that you come back after you have died and it is ‘not forever’ got backed up by her saying ‘look Mummy, there’s Steve now’.

I had a couple of ebay parcels to send off so I packaged them up and we headed off to Tescos via the post office. Our local Tesco is having a massive revamp with what looks like the same size again extension built onto the side so is in disarray at the moment which meant we had to walk the entire shop to find the various bits we wanted. I’d said the children could choose some sweets if they behaved in the post office and Tesco but Tarly started to get bored and was messing about with the make up so after several warnings I told her she’d lost her sweets. Shortly afterwards we were walking along and Davies announced he would choose something they both liked for him and share it with her. Which resulted in me melting at what a lovely boy he is and her telling him what she wanted him to choose with no appreciation of what he had offered at all 🙄 So they both got their sweets!

Once home we had lunch and I persuaded myself to make a start on party preparation. I’m going with party bags as I’ve already got the paper to make the bags and a few bits to go in them. When I said my two expected party bags I meant at their parties rather than ones they are guests at and as Davies has planned most of this party himself, along with there being goody bags I am happy to go along with it. So I decided to start making those. I kicked the children out of the lounge as they were playing really nicely together but at high volume, so I sent them to go upstairs and play. Not at all sure what the game was and at one point when I peeped in Davies was playing with a Vtech laptop thing while Tarly lazed around looking at Mr Men books but it was all very harmonious and gave me some peace. 🙂 Davies also came down to say he’d been playing a game on it called ‘silly sentences’ which had nonsense like ‘the car jumped over the house’ – so he seems to be getting all the education he requires nice and autonomously from the electronic gadgets around the place. 😉 I got quickly bored with the party bags but emailed Ady to get him to print things off for me at work which will make it easier to sort them out tomorrow instead. I found the Wallace and Gromit OST on Amazon marketplace very cheaply so ordered that for the party games music, phoned my Mum to get her to bring me some ‘wrong’ trousers home from the charity shop she works at and sorted out the order for Susumama – I’m collecting it on Thursday so stuff will be here for the weekend.

Then I turned my attention to outfits. I’ve ordered Davies a really cool W&G T shirt but although it should be here for his actual birthday it probably won’t be here for the party. I’d talked the children out of fancy dress but they wanted something themed so we dug out white shirts and fabric pens and paint and created W&G tops for them both – designs their’s, artwork mine. 🙂

I did their tea and they sat down to eat that while I cooked loads of quiches for dinner tonight, party food and for the freezer. Then I started the first load of baking too with some little biscuits to be decorated tomorrow for the party.