Right decision not to go to MM definitely as I felt ill on and off through the day. No idea what it is but I’m off to bed in a minute with hopes to sleep it off and have another quiet day tomorrow before a madly busy one on Wednesday.
I did a bit of sneaky baking of bread rolls and flapjacks which we had for lunch, read lots of my book which I’ve decided I’ve now read enough to not be voting for as the winner of the orange prize for reading group and can therefore stop bothering with and get on to the next book. Davies did some xboxing, Scarlett got loads of her cuddly toys in ‘because they are my super animals, Mummy’ and did lots of little drawings on tiny pieces of paper which she kept bringing to me. She did loads of letters too and brought them over saying ‘this is my Best Ever Y Mummy, look!’. In the same way that suddenly Davies knew what all the letters were she seems to be learning them from various places – the Y is from the ends of Daddy, Happy and Birthday from cards to Ady and Frazer in the last couple of weeks. Davies ‘read’ a load of words in the back of a Dr Who book based on guesswork and a bit of sounding out – now that Scarlett is interested he is being pushed into reading to keep ahead of her and also to do his helpful big brother act – an excellent reason to read IMO! 😆
I did some jigsaw puzzles with them, one of a pirate ship and one world map one which they then played with. I was rather stunned to listen to them pointing out a few countries to each other too – they both found the UK really easily and as the puzzle had wildlife pictures on it too they were really quite confident in various other places like Australia (so that must be New Zealand there), Madagascar (yep those lemurs again!) and Africa.
We had lots of chicks out run around time and then they watched the Pink Panther before it was time to take Davies round to Beavers. Scarlett sat on my lap and talked nonsense to me until Ady got home and then he took over, taking Tarly round with him to collect Davies, popping out to get potatoes and lucozade and making shepherds pie for dinner while I sat on the sofa and was pathetic. We rehoused the chicks into a bigger box as they just seemed so crowded in their old one. This is enormous and they are huddled together under the heat lamp but keep scurring around exploring and seem happy with the space so this should do them until they go outside.