A pretty good day today, illness aside. Won’t even bother reporting the night infact I think I’ll just leave nightimes ’till we get someting blogworthy on the plus side 🙂
So what did we get upto today? Well first thing we did a small bit of festive crafts – I got out my shiny new compass and showed them how to use it to make circles and also flowers, then we cut out some circles – this is actually quite noteworthy for Davies who has always struggled a bit with scissors and paper doing what they should – today he managed some really pretty impressive cutting round the circle shapes – and using crimped edge scissors too. I made a few snowflakes which Scarlett decorated with glitter glue, I also tried a bauble type thing from one of our Christmas crafts books which looks too good to be childmade and too crap to be proud of so that will be binned! Also cut out a christmas tree shape each for them from green paper to decorate which they both did good jobs on and then they got bored so I cleared all that up (see blog below for handy tips!) and brought out some puzzles ready for when Julie and the twins arrived.
Scarlett was actually qute spiteful today to the twins – she can be like this if she is tired or poorly – sort of toddler PMT I guess and she is really better left alone than trying to make her share or play nicely – frankly I often don’t feel like playing nicely or sharing MY stuff so I don’t see that children should always be forced to! So despite Maisie really wanting to join in puzzles with us I gave Scarlett some one to one and let Davies do ‘big cousin’ with Maisie and do puzzles with her! She then cheered up a bit and we had lunch. After that they all started to get a bit rowdy and before any gratuitous chucking about of toys, mess making or book abuse could start I brought the dressing up trunk into the lounge which occupied all four of them (and Julie!) until they left – which was great. 🙂
After that both of my two faded fast and picked at food all afternoon to keep them going, which meant they didn’t want any tea. At 4pm Scarlett was asking for ‘sleep Mummy, bed’. I told her to wait ’till Ady got home and the instant he walked in the door instead of running to greet him like usual she turned to me and said ‘Now Mummy sleep bed?’ Bless her! Persuaded her to watch Dora before she went to bed at about 5.30pm – but lets face it the nights we are having it makes no odds what time she goes to bed, she’ll still be up again before we go to bed!
Davies managed a respectable hour longer before falling asleep as his head touched the pillow at 6.30pm.
Don’t know what I was thinking getting more beads before I bought a bead recepticle into which to colour sort them I’m sure! And given the kids yearning for familiar characters from TV which need blocks of certain colours I think I need to do a top up order anyway – so put the midi beads away again and made a backpack for Tarly to match her Dora (and use up some of the excess of purple!), Davies watched a dinosaur movie on DVD and Scarlett was actually very good at colour sorting beads for me and naming the colours as she did it – bless 🙂
Tomorrow we were planning a walk in a woodland area with a picnic but given the kids’ already passable resemblances to a certain red nose reindeer and their hacking coughs I don’t think I would be a good Mummy to let them out really, so I think we might do some baking of edible tree decorations and maybe even the cake for Tarly’s birthday which I can then decorate in the evening.
Tonight Ady is cooking some phesants a kindly work colleage gave him (yum!) I am going to have a big bubble bath and lots of wine before Scarlett wakes up, and maybe even do some more bits off my job list!
ooh, pheasants – and wine – yum! Think I might join you in a glass. Bath sounds good too … 🙂
Comment by Sarah — 02 December 2004 @ 7:28 pm
Surely we wouldn’t fit?!
Sorry – three glasses down and the old ones are the best – my dog’s got no nose!
Comment by Nic — 02 December 2004 @ 8:41 pm
Now I restrained the urge to respond to Sarah along those lines…. rofl
Comment by jax — 03 December 2004 @ 12:42 am