Early start for everyone this morning. Ady took Davies and Scarlett over to Liza’s as he can afford to be late for work and I can’t so we don’t have to drop them off quite so early. Also his petrol is free ;). I was up coaxing the breakfasting and getting dressed along and waving them off.
I then spent ages deciding what to wear – need to go through my wardrobe and have a sort out and try and assemble some work outfits really or at least some stuff I can chuck on and know fits and looks okay together on a rushed morning. I stuck some pizza dough on as Davies has been asking for pizza for dinner for days and I keep not remembering in time to make the dough and then headed off to work.
It was a nice busy morning with loads to keep us busy and I spent the last hour putting together a display of books and stories about spies in the junior section. I’d ordered in some graphics from the marketing department but they all refered to adult books so I decided to make my own. I liked the idea of fingerprints and googled for images and then realised I could just make my own and enlarge them on the photocopier so I took some prints of my own fingers which looked really good. But did mean I spent the rest of the day looking like I’d been fingerprinted with inky fingertips 😆
Finished work and went to collect the kids who’d had a really nice morning catching up with Andrew and at the park :). I’d arranged to meet Lucy for an hour at the park so we had a nice chat / catch up and the kids mostly played together in the park.
We came home and gathered all their Badger clothes together, they had tea and we dashed around getting ready to arrive at Badger early for presentation night. In the car on the way there I reminded Tarly about standing still, listening and not picking her nose when she was right in the middle at the front of the line up. She berated me for reminding her about picking her nose as apparently now she would have to do it as I’d reminded her and it’s one of her ‘habitats’ 😆
There was even more hullaballoo than usual as VIPs from high up SJA were there tonight. I sat and chatted to the mother of Scarlett’s best friend there who has just had a new baby boy. I’ve always thought she could be a HEor, she just has that look about her although I know she isn’t. We chatted chickens and babies :). Ady arrived just in time before the presentation bit started.
The first part of the presentations was the children coming in in twos and threes talking about what they’d done this term. Tarly was one of the first out with two other tiny boys all clutching little first aid boxes they’d made from paper. She did a great loud voice announcement of what it was bless her. She’s random but she sure isn’t shy! Davies has been doing Hungry Badger so he came out twice, once to show his chopstick skills by transferring marshmallows from one plate to another with a pair and the second time to show how they’d learnt to lay a tray for an elderley or incapacitated person.
They were all presented with their badges and certficates for this term so Scarlett got her first aid badge and also a bronze badge for completing 3 badges – actually she’s done 4 and did get her bronze at Christmas but I’ve been so slack about not sewing it on they obviously decided they’d not done it and so gave her another one 😆 Davies got his hungry badger badge and a gold badge for completing 9 badges altogether. He only seems to have 8 but they are insisting his record card says it’s 9 so we’ re taking the badge anyway 😆 More sewing.
The 2 oldest girls who are both 10 are moving up to cadets so Davies will suddenly be one of the oldest, which will feel strange and Tarly is moving into the middle rather than being one of the babies too.
I brought the kids home with me while Ady went off to get stuff for dinner. We got home, they got pj’d up and Davies listened to one story with Tarly and I before going to bed with the pile of audio books I brought home today. I can still hear Stig of the Dump and suspect he may well still be awake listening to it.
Scarlett and I read a pile of books including: Life Story
Speedy bath and Apprentice watching for me, Ady cooked a lovely dinner and I got confirmation – to Davies’ delight – that he’s got a place in Forest School next term 🙂