I didn’t get to sleep til about 3am (not going to bed til 2am probably had something to do with it, must get back into better nocturnal habits) so it was gone 9am when I woke. Davies and Scarlett both came upstairs while I was getting dressed but I heard Davies’ bedroom door shut and assumed they’d gone back downstairs. When I passed it on my way downstairs I heard low voices so opened it and peeped in to find them both sitting on his bed deep in conversation.
The sun was shining and they were trying to work out how to use mirror and other glass things like photo frames and the clear plastic end of a metal detector to beam the sunlight onto the bedroom door so they could reflect it into our bedroom. They managed it in the end bouncing it off the metal detector Scarlett was holding on the bed, into a mirror on the wall, onto a mirror Davies was holding next to his dalek and out of the door onto my bedroom wall. I think if I’d let them carry on the plan was to see if the could bounce it down the stairs but they were hungry for breakfast so came downstairs with me. I love moments like that though :). I love the impromptu challenges, the team work, the working out how to make things happen and gathering together all sorts of odd stuff to assist and of course all the incidental learning that goes along with it.
So breakfast, dressed and pizza dough on for dinner then off to Tasha’s. They were supposed to be coming to us but were having a new boiler fitted so needed to be home – what it is with boilers at the moment? That’s the 4th including our own I’ve heard of playing up in the last few weeks. We got there just after 11am and aside from a brief wandering downstairs to claim they were hungry before eating and disappearing back upstairs again we didnt’ see Davies, Scarlett and Toby for the whole 5 and a half hours we were there :). Tasha and I sat and chatted, I knitted and it was all very nice. For all the things about Tasha and I that are very different we also have a lot of things in common and today sat and chatted about baking and crafting and potential business opportunities from either or both.
We came home to get Tarly ready for Rainbows – she claims it is the last time she’s going to need me to stay, which will be nice :). I did some making up of the jumper which is finally finished and drank tea as the plumbers at Tasha’s had meant a ration of just one cup as they were in the way in the kitchen preventing her from making more – she usually drip feeds me tea for my entire visit :). The kids got the lego out for a quick play before Rainbows and Ady got home in time for me to take Tarly. I sat and read my book while the Rainbows did an assault course. I noticed Scarlett being a lot more confident and vocal which is good but I suspect she will come into her own just before she turns 7 and is due to leave :lol:. We fell out in the shop on the way home where I called in to get some eggs but she apologised when we got in (I will tolerate a lot of things that many parents wouldn’t accept from children but rudeness is something I won’t tolerate from anyone. Question and challenge by all means, act ignorant or plain rude and my back will be well and truly got up) so that was quickly forgotten.
They had tea I read them the booklet for tomorrow’s Magic Lantern club which is screening The Princess Bride and talked about genres and parodies and what both mean. It’s been a real find that club, they love going :). Then we had a chapter of Humphrey before bed. Davies reappeared downstairs several times including while we were eating and led to him working out what time it was (didn’t realise he knew all the roman numerals on my big clock) and disciphering words such as ‘late’ and ‘bedtime’ when I spelt them out to him. Hey if he’s going to be around he needs to work for it ;).
Pizza for tea for us too and as it’s back to work for me tomorrow I really should try and get to bed at as respectable an hour as I can.
Love the light bouncing challenge!
The Princess Bride is one of my favourite films. C finds it too scary though so refuses to watch it 🙁
Erm, what is next week’s film?
Comment by Michelle — 28 February 2009 @ 10:22 am
They really enjoyed it and said they’d watch it again so I might get a copy from work to watch with them.
Next week is RSPB wildlife explorers, not film club. I can see if C would be allowed to join them for the session or she can walk round the reserve with us?
Comment by Nic — 28 February 2009 @ 10:15 pm
she probably wouldn’t mind either way but would prefer to know in advance. It would be better for the adults if she wasn’t earwigging as we walk around the reserve 😉
Comment by Michelle — 01 March 2009 @ 10:03 am