And when everybody’s super….

No one will be!

We love that line from The Incredibles and quote it a lot – or variations of it. Davies did today actually when Scarlett was wishing that we had snow all the time and Davies commented that if we had it all the time there wouldn’t be anything special or exciting about it, it would just be normal. She agreed and amended her wish to snow being warm instead of cold because that would be really ‘snuggly to play in’ – can’t argue with that! 😆

But actually yesterday managed to be a day where everyone was super and that was a good thing. We left home at about 9ish having done last minute packing up as usual despite good intentions to be better prepared on Friday night. We had a really easy run and arrived at Bob & Katy’s pretty much exactly when we’d expected to. The Babs and co were already there so as the front door opened we were greeted by an excited crowd of children all very thrilled at the arrival of Davies! The rest of us were given a cursory greeting as Davies’ entourage and Davies was spirited away in a flurry of high pitched small boy craziness and after initial shyness and establishing whether any cats lived at the house (Scarlett’s rider really for anywhere she visits) Scarlett seemed to divide her time between Beth, Rachael, Libby and all of the above. Ady got involved in table football and I made myself useful with some vegetable chopping (even the ones I don’t eat! :lol:).

Jan and Jonathan and co arrived as did Chris and Alison and then we were off to the party venue, just down the road. We’d driven through every extreme of weather on the way up there and it continued through the day with very impressive hailstones. Davies and Scarlett got changed into their Super costumes and joined in with the very comprehensive array of games and activities on offer, from mask making, bead threading, various other crafty bits, the chocolate game and more. There was loads of lovely food including four (count ’em) cakes and it was a really good childrens’ party :).

We all piled back to Bob and Katy’s where the children were mostly heard and not seen until the ones left were all staying the night so were rounded up, pj’d and read several bedtime stories before scattering to various parts of the house for bedtime. We’d taken our new camping mats for a first test run and were very impressed with them :).

The remaining adults had a couple of games of Blokus – which I was pretty crap at, I so don’t do games, I just don’t care enough about winning to be any good at them I don’t think – and they get in the way of the serious business of chatting and drinking wine IMO! We had some really interesting conversations about education, autonomy and more which I really enjoyed. It’s lovely to be in company where you know offence won’t be caused by differing viewpoints being discussed and noone will take anything personally :). I was not last to bed but gave up just before 3am which I think was late enough ;).

This morning we woke to snow. Quite easily the deepest snow Davies and Scarlett have ever seen in real life as we so seldom get any down here. Davies enjoyed it for a while, Scarlett would probably still be in the garden now! 😆 We’d initially thought we might go along to church with the others, or stay behind and leave after lunch but I was concerned about the roads getting bad if the snow continued, given how the UK does tend to grind to a halt when it snows, so in the end we left for home when the others headed off to church.

We actually had a very good run home. I guess the weather and it being Easter Sunday meant there were very few cars on the road and actually the further south we came the less snow had fallen until we saw none at all once we were past Dartford. We arrived home about 1pm ish so had crumpets, lots of chocolate and roast chicken around 6pm. The children played with their Primeval characters and made anomolies out of geomags for them :).

Davies has been asking all sorts of interesting questions today, both in the car and at home including:

Why do we have toes? What are the palms of our hands for?
Would plants go quicker or slower in space than on earth?
Why do boys like toys like cars and girls like dolls and pink things?
How do we know mammoths lived at the same time as people and what would be the difference between elephant and mammoth remains?

This led to googling and discussions about anatomy, evolution, NASA experiments, gravity, artificial and real sunlight, watering in zerogravity situations, creation of hybrid plants suited to their environment, sexism, nature versus nurture, social conditioning, which is the more important role – breadwinner or homemaker? Is there any difference between sexes? Cave paintings, remains found frozen, hot countries and cold countries and animals natural diets and habitats, extinction, relationships between animals and man and, oh, so much more! He is doing a lot of observations or statements at the moment and a lot of information gathering too about all sorts of seemingly unconnected and random things. But if I’ve learnt anything since having Davies it’s that nothing is ever random or unrelated and even if it seems to be then stuff seems to happen to make it relevant very quickly. As we drove over the Thames today he asked if it had ever frozen and I was telling him about paintings of people skating on it in years gone by – I just bet that ties in somehow with something we do while we’re up there for the next couple of days.