I signed up for the word of the day email on www.dictionary.com yesterday and today’s word is enervate – which is pretty much how I feel, drained and feeble 🙂 So that was handy!
My back is better still today but not totally normal. Scarlett slept through again last night which somehow serves to make me feel more tired than if she hadn’t…not at all sure how that one works out other than I feel like I have spent a night not properly asleep just waiting for her to wake, whereas if she wakes then goes back to sleep I seem to relax into a better sleep – that all sounds total crap but I think I know what I mean!
Ady has been leaving home by 7am and kids have been waking up with him at 6ish which means when he leaves I have to get up – I don’t like any time before about 8.30am really so I come and sit grumpily on the sofa with my laptop and drip feed myself tea until I feel ready to start the day. Which seems to mean that although we have been up for three hours it is never before 10am that we get dressed!
Scarlett did a wee on her potty this morning, which I think was a first, so hurrah for that 🙂
Yesterday I had a fit about the kids still having morning and evening milk from baby bottles and made them choose new cups from Tescos – which has meant they have both drunk a small amount last night and this morning to the soundtrack of them complaining and me reasoning that they are not babies anymore. I’m torn between being totally unworried about it not mattering anyway and being more important that they are still both drinking a pint of milk a day or deciding that the time has come for them to stop drinking out of bottles and the milk not being drunk anymore if a natural side effect and not mattering. Hmmm, think I might go back to bottles again tonight…
We’ve been to soft play today which is always successful, I get to sit and chat to Julie while the kids wear themselves out running round with their cousins and ticking off PE, socialising and families boxes 🙂 Today Davies and Scarlett made friends with another brother and sister who were there (girl about D’s age, boy a couple of years older) and were running round together and going down the big slide all holding hands – very cute 🙂 After lunch in the cafe we went back in for a last play and we ended up having a ball fight with the kids which ended in a tickle fight and was good fun (although probably not great for my back!). I quite like soft play places when there are not many children there 🙂
The kids are currently doing magic painting which always keeps them quiet with minimum mess to be cleared up afterwards. Feels like we have not done anything remotely educational this week and next week is already full with socialising every day, definitely focusing on the mixing and mingling and networking skills instead of the three rs at the moment 🙂
Need to pack tonight ready for the weekend away up north. It’s always nice to see Miranda, and we will be seeing Lynda too which the kids are looking forward to, but I just know it will be a manic weekend with too much packed into it, bad nights with the kids in strange beds and the long car journey at either end. This might be my last blog ’til next week, so have a good weekend all.
Have a great time Nic 🙂
Comment by Jules — 21 April 2005 @ 8:12 pm
Hope weekend is fun and not too hectic! See you Monday.
Comment by Ali — 21 April 2005 @ 11:06 pm
When Titch has wakeful patches I find myself clock watching until she wakes also 🙁 But it’s not normally the case and I’m sure once S is sleeping through most nights, you will too.
I wouldn’t worry about them not getting a ‘pint of milk a day’- don’t yogs and cheese and stuff count anyway? But then I wouldn’t worry too much about the bottles either as I very much doubt either of them will still want a bottle in their teens so sooner or later they’ll decide against it anyway.
Can’t see much more important than mixing, mingling and playing at their ages really. Hope you have a grand weekend.
Comment by Heather — 22 April 2005 @ 12:48 pm
Follow your instincts Nic, but mine have never had a pint a day once they stopped breast feeding. They have cereal in the morning and may have yogurt later in the day. Because of all my dairy problems I actually discourage too much of it LOL! I shouldn’t stress yourselves about the bottles unless it is because they annoy you.
I hate waiting for them to wake up and then they don’t! Inconsiderate me thinks :-). I spent last night with Pea and Buzz in our bed so don’t feel like I have had much sleep at all and we were at a charity dinner last night.
Enjoy your weekend xxxxx
Comment by Roslyn — 23 April 2005 @ 9:24 am