I worked this morning. Ady was home with D and S but under the pretext of being at the dentist so I think he was fielding phonecalls a lot :(.
Work was good, busy as we were down to just 3 of us when Frankie had to leave to collect her son from school following a phonecall from the school to say he was ill. She has 4 children, the youngest being 6yo twin boys and one of them is not enjoying school despite attending nursery and loving his reception year. He does a lot of ‘crying wolf’ about feeling ill to get out of going but today it seemed he’d been telling the truth rather than school avoiding. She doesn’t chat to me much about it, I suspect I’m not the right person really ;).
Davies had spent the morning colouring in his Mr Gum book cover pictures, really well actually, must take some photos of them tomorrow in daylight. Scarlett was doing painting.
I had some lunch and then we tidied up and headed to the park to meet Lucy and The Rs for an hour. The four kids had a great time playing together although it was pretty busy there with the pre-school groups of toddlers on their way to collect older siblings from school.
We left there and decided, rather rashly as it happened, that we had time to whizz to the shoe shop in Rustington that sells pretend crocs. We took a silly circuitous route back through Lancing and got caught at the level crossing and then hit loads of traffic on the way but found a parking space straight away and chose a pair each from the limited selection of last years colours. Davies had wanted orange and Tarly pink but they ended up with pale blue for Davies and yellow for Scarlett with a promise that I’d get them a second pair each in the chosen colour later in the summer. I’m fairly sure they are both on the cusp of a growth spurt – Davies suddenly looks longer of leg.
We came home a different route to avoid the traffic taking in the ‘short cut’ rat run I used to cycle home from college and managed to get home in time for them to have tea and get changed for Badgers. Unfortunately we hit more traffic getting there and were slightly late. Scarlett was upset about something I’d chucked out when clearing out my car the other day that Davies had drawn her attention to so was wobbly going in. She did come back out again but after a brief chat in the car she went back in again (no doubt causing eye rolling from the adults there who already think I take my children far too seriously ;)). I stayed in the car playing Davies’ ds.
Ady got home shortly after we did and we finished reading the fourth Mr Gum book. Only one to read now and Davies is wearing out the audio book of the first one listening it over every night so he can practically recite the whole thing now. So many books in that style for that age group are based around school it’s been fab to find a whole series that don’t mention school at all.
Bed for them, bath for me followed by cooking dinner, a bit of Phil and Kirstie and disappointment that Grand Designs was a revisited one rather than a new one.
LOL at the adults who think you take your children far too seriously. I know that look so well!
Comment by Ali — 19 March 2009 @ 11:03 am