Today was Jasper day, so despite being my lie in when I was awoken by the children being rowdy at about 7.30am I got up instead of rolling over and going back to sleep. We managed to be out of the house by shortly after 9am and arrived in Reading for 11am. A quick trip to Costco for ‘hurrah, you’ve had a baby!’ gift and putting some photos in for printing later and we were having our official introduction to baby ‘JW’. And rather lovely he is too 🙂
I don’t really do babies, but if I have to do babies I’d rather they were boys. And babies belonging to people I adore. So this one ticked all relevant boxes and I enjoyed a lovely long cuddle while Davies and Scarlett indulged in their own brands of baby worship. Given my own lack of interest in babies generally they are not well used to exposure with babies really – they tended to spend their only time in the company of zero years aged people when they were peers and I was occupied holding my own rather than someone else’s so Jasper had a certain novelty value.
Which admittedly wore off once Claudia came home and some geomag deco panels were broken open aswell 🙂 And then they disappeared upstairs. I peeked in on them when going to the loo and was very amused to see all three of them crowded round Claudie’s pc playing some educational game – poor autonomously Home Educated wee ones desperate for some nice structured education in line with early years curriculum goals 😉 😆
We called into Chris and Alison’s on the way home to return some items and collect the rather lovely pottery pieces from E’s pottery party a couple of weeks ago. The children are both very pleased with their plates and Tarly’s kitten and Davies’ dinosaur. We came home via Costcos again to collect photos and McDonalds for the kids tea.
Now we are catching up on the Torchwood episodes we missed – we came in at episode 3 so we’re doing 1 and 2 on BBC3 – really must watch those last two Dr Who episodes to find out how Rose left at some point too…
We didn’t do any of the reading with Davies due to all the gallivanting but he did lie in bed on the very verge of sleep and ask me if ‘the word learn has L and E next to each other?’ so I guess he’s going to get there with or without my structured, reading system help eh? 🙂
Tomorrow we have not a lot planned – there is a car boot sale in the pub car park across the road which I am intrigued about the logistics of so want to go and check out. We have arranged to meet Chris and Julie for an Autumn Walk to collect chestnuts (for roasting on open fires) and the same pub has a free bonfire and firework display in their beer garden later tomorrow evening. Honestly if we had money that would be the pub to relieve us of it 😉
Hurray to Torchwood! First 2 episodes = best so far though, IMO.
Comment by Gill — 04 November 2006 @ 10:56 pm
And wow about that reading thing. Thats a biggie, isnt it? In terms of forward strides. Fascinating to follow their logic process.
Comment by Gill — 04 November 2006 @ 10:58 pm
I’ve discovered what is better than Skippy – Skippy & Nutella (& Merlot) 🙂
Was lovely to see you 🙂
Am still mortified about Tarly’s face 🙁 Hope she’s okay.
Comment by layla — 05 November 2006 @ 11:50 am
yeah we watched the third Torchwood first but I agree the first two were actually better. A amused me by sitting there for ages seemingly engrossed in the TV and then suddenly announcing ‘Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who isn’t it?’ – not educational I hasten to add – Ady is 42! I’d have been dead chuffed if one of the children had come up with it 😉
Yep the reading is fascinating – I have a blog post about it if I can raise myself to type it actually 🙂
Lovely to see you and your *children* too Layla 🙂 – don’t really like Skippy myself – or Nutella but I reckon Merlot would be worth a try 😉 Tarly’s face is fine, scabbed up nicely and hidden by her tangled hair 😉
Comment by Nic — 05 November 2006 @ 1:27 pm