Tick!

I went to bed really early last night (it was before 11pm) and a decent night’s sleep had me feeling much better this morning. Ady OTOH did the reverse and while he is normally the one in bed before 11pm he stayed up to watch Pompey playing football and finally came to bed around 1am. Less than sensible considering he was running a friend to the airport this morning before work and had to be up again about 430am 😆 .

I’d got a bee in my bonnet (don’t you love that phrase? I think it may well be why I love ‘Birdhouse in your soul’ so much 🙂 about getting some shoes to wear with a dress to a wedding Ady and I are going to in a couple of weeks so we decided to do that first thing. We were in town and parked before 10am, found shoes in the first shop we looked in, found some hairslides to go with the outfit in the second shop and were back home again by 1130am – result :). I think we made a slightly odd spectacle in New Look as I tried on shoes and my junior Trinny and Susanah gave me advice like ‘can you walk in them?’ and ‘ah yes but can you dance?’ ‘will you wear them again and if so where to?’ 😆

Before we’d gone out I’d added some water, carrot and onion to the remains of yesterdays slow cooker chicken and turned the slow cooker back on to make soup and the breadmaker on to make dough. Davies went to play his DS for a while (he’s still loving Viva Pinata 🙂 ) while Tarly and I made some rolls and strained the soup, transfered it to a saucepan and added some cornflour. Scarlett and I had both for our lunch, Davies passed on the soup but had rolls and came back for seconds. They both ate the remainder of the rolls over the course of the afternoon :).

They disappeared upstairs to play – Scarlett is enjoying watching Davies play this DS game and Davies is enjoying having an audience, I kept feeling all glowy seeing their two messy blonde heads bent together over a DS chatting together about whirlms and sparrowmints and having no idea what they are talking about but enjoying watching two people I gave birth to being so close and having such a seperate relationship than the one(s) they have with me :). I bimbled about online for a while and then decided the weather was so lovely and I would feel so good about doing it that we’d head up to the allotment for an hour.

Davies and Scarlett needed little persuading – I am sure the novelty will wear off but they have great pride in their own little patches, love the chance to wander off to get water and chat to other allotmenteers and are generally very outdoorsy children anyway. They love digging and making a mess without anyone worrying about it, Davies is loving creating his own empire and landscape and Scarlett is very happy gathering wildlife :). I did a full hour of digging and was very pleased with my progress. It cleared my blocked nose too :).

We came home and they continued playing outside in the garden until Ady got home. I did some ragrugging and tonight have finished effort number 3 – a rainbow ragrug which Davies appeared downstairs at 11pm, declared he ‘loved’ and took back away with him upstairs so I suspect has found it’s home in his bedroom :).

Scarlett had Rainbows – she chose to take a small green caterpillar she found yesterday and has created a little enclosure for from a tupperware box. It has air holes in the lid, she has drawn a (very good) caterpillar on the top and aswell as more leaves for it to eat she has added a couple of ornaments too :). She is mastering the art of hulahooping currently, having recently learnt (of a fashion) to skip with a rope. Today’s activity was making a windmill so they did that and then Scarlett led a game of sliding across the hall on her knees which had most of the Rainbows following. She was then involved in a game of ‘it’ which predictably noone caught her for so she remained not it for the whole game. She ran around at her usual superspeedy pace but was one of the only children not red faced and puffing and panting. I can’t preach as I am clearly very unfit myself but I do look at the other Rainbows and Badgers and indeed the other children at their swimming lessons each week and think that sadly Davies and Scarlett are in a minority at being obviously active children every day 🙁 .

She did well at Show and Tell talking about her caterpillar. Lucy (who stays with Rebecca) and I were trying very hard not to giggle when one of the girls showed her new cardigan, brandishing the label and saying ‘it’s from NEXT!’. How can 6 year olds give a stuff about things like that FFS?!

The other big news for Scarlett,which she shared with the Rainbows is that her and I spent some time online today looking at the websites for Marwell Zoo and Drusillas as I had said to her that I was thinking about a keeper for day type present for her birthday this year. We compared Marwell’s offering – £100 for half an hour, has to be accompanied by an adult who has to pay to get into Marwell, you won’t be allowed to touch the animals – with Drusillas £120 for the whole day 10am-4pm, go behind the scenes with a keeper for the whole day, prepare feeds, handle animals, participate in the proper feed and keeper talks for the lemurs and the penguins, have to be supervised by an adult who gets in free and up to four other people can come along at reduced entrance rates. No real contest there then! Ady’s printed off the forms and I’ll ring them next week to see when I can get it booked for, it would be great to have it on her actual birthday :). It’s still 2 whole months away but she is already crazily excited :).

And that pretty much concludes our Friday :).