A day of many blogs…

I think that’s what it’s going to be…

My cold has broken today so while I still feel fairly pants I don’t feel all woolly and full of ‘something’ any more.

Anyway, Ady got up with the children and I stayed in bed until 8ish with them downstairs watching Nightmare Before Christmas on full volume. When I came down Davies told me he had sorted out their breakfast – they’d had water to drink (he can read the tap with the aid of a stool) and bread rolls. I gave him a cuddle and told him he was getting so grown up he hardly needs me any more. He looked quite shocked, clambered onto my lap and said ‘of course I still need you Mummy’. Warmth flooded my heart, relief that five year old boys do still need their mummies washed over me and then he continued ‘I can’t possibly reach the cereal!’

Davies and I have been playing Battleships. I forgot to mention yesterday that he appeared with it – a plastic version with pegs and little boats that someone had bought him as a birthday present but we’d never got out before – and asked me to show him how to play it. I really like battleships actually, I used to play it with my Dad for hours when I was a child and then when I worked in a very quiet office for a few months and the boss was off long term sick leaving me and an admin. assistant to our own devices (well we were hardly going to work under such circumstances 😉 ) we sat and played battleships every single day for weeks. Infact when I finally left the job she presented me with a little battleships grid in a gold plated frame to remember her by! So we played a bit yesterday and we’ve played a bit more this morning – I’m not utterly convinced by his ‘hit’or ‘miss’ responses to my guesses (yesterday I managed to get a single hit surrounded by misses on all sides so we had to call Ady in to adjudicate (and no, that’s not a word of the day 😉 ) ) but getting to grips with the numbers, letters, grid references and the idea of graphs generally is all very educational I’m sure.

He’s now sitting watching The Making of Nightmare Before Christmas on the extras bit of the dvd and seems fascinated by all of the animation and puppetry and the concept of storyboards. Infact I’m fairly sure I forgot to mention the other day that he’d created a whole book using illustrations to tell a fairly complicated story. He did use a few letters (initials of himself and Scarlett, me and Ady mostly) but flatly refused to do any more writing when I offered to write the story out if he narrated it to me for him to copy. And now he’s negotiating his way round deleted scenes from the movie and asking me if we can get all the things they use in the making of bits to make our own puppets – argh! Way out of my depth here… off to the library later anyway, might see if they have any books to help make puppets or indeed some ideas on animation or film making.

Scarlett is playing with fuzzy felt faces and some convoluted game with a variety of soft toys including a pink puppy, a purple unicorn, a dolphinn, a centerparcs teddy and one of her many Dora toys.