All in a morning’s work!

And a pretty good morning at that 🙂

Scarlett went to bed at about 5.15pm yesterday but woke up when she heard Ady’s voice at around 7pm – and with a few small naps when we thought she’d gone back to sleep only to reappear ten minutes later she finally went to sleep at about 10.30 and slept through. Somewhere in the middle of all that she pulled round from the floppy, feverish, itchy and uncommunicatative little girl she has been the last few days to being back to herself again. Very relieved… I was seriously starting to worry that it was a worse case of pox than I should be dealing with at home with calpol and cuddles and I was going to make a doc’s appointment this morning if she was no better. So that was a relief 🙂 This morning she has been very bubbly only relapsing slightly when I told her off for something and she collapsed into sobbing (and it was quite a mild telling off too really) then put herself to bed and slept for a further couple of hours.

The pox are scabbing over now and some of them do look quite icky and infected – will give her a bath later (with one of a vast selection of recommended additives – oats / bicarb / salt / lavender oil) and get a real idea of how bad they are and if any look likely to scar.

Been watching lots of Nick Jr the last couple of days while sat on the lounge floor – and to my complete shock and surprise I have grown quite fond of the Wiggles – I even have a favourite 🙂 (still singing hot potato, hot potato under my breath!) The Garden Dance on the other hand – and the two presenters who erm, perfom it have incurred my dark feelings though – argh!!!

So following on from last nights ponderings Davies-wise I dug out his Usborne Early Beginners series (second one down on the right) and asked him which subject he would like to do a lap book or project on. He chose Space so we dug out all the books on Space we have in the house (and yes it is quite a pile – I knew my future use booking buying would one day prove itself worthy 😉 ) and had a flick through. Tarly was not so keen on this idea and we reached an uneasy compromise of one book of her choice, followed by one on space which sort of lost the continuity I was hoping for. So I suggested to Davies that we did his Space puzzle and then made a big picture of it by copying it. So he made the puzzle while I stuck 7 sheets of black paper together and gathered pens and crayons, then with fairly minimal help he created a pretty good replica of it on his paper. My help was along the lines of suggesting he drew a circle for the planet first and then coloured it in and so on. By this time Scarlett had gone back to bed so when he had finished colouring I sat with him and helped him copy all the names of the planets to write underneath them. This did entail a fair bit of sighing. slumping, moaning about being ‘sooooo tired’ and generally putting on quite a song and dance about the whole business but he did do it 🙂 To celebrate I got out some sticky stars and he stuck them on to finish it off before putting it up on the wall to show it off.

There was a bit of coersion and tbh all the idea of doing it came from me rather than him but he has churned out a really nice piece of work, done some ‘reading’ (well letter recognition) some writing, some Science and astonomy in the shape of talking about the planets, space and so on, some art o and had some one to one with me too.

And now our Book People order has arrived so we are off to investigate that. Back later 🙂