Early morning – up before 7am but was still sat on the sofa in my nightie at 10! Managed to scramble round within half an hour to get me and both kids dressed, wash up breakfast dishes and hoover up breakfast crumbs before friend Lucy arrived at 10.30am to follow us to Soft Play meet up though 😉 I do work well under pressure!
The soft play meet up with a real life crossover session. It was an Activeo (the localish very big membership only HE group I belong to but rarely attend any events for), which Julie is also a member of so she was there too and I took Lucy along to show her the soft play and introduce her to some HE folk (she is a wavering and considering possible recruit. Infact I think that by getting back in touch with me again she is becomming quite a strong possible!). My two have been there a fair few times before so off they ran as soon as I de-shoe-d them. Scarlett was looking very ‘Hesfes’ today – she’d gotten hold of my hair wax this morning and plastered her hair with it so it was all dreadlocky, she had spilt ribena all down her top on the way over in the car (she was also wearing a mini kaftan and cropped trousers combo) and had on a beaded bracelet of mine reading ‘mummy nic mummy nic mummy nic’ just to set the outfit off nicely! So she blended right in!
I struggled to mix and mingle as much as I’d like today, actually, too many different cross sections there. I wanted to catch up with Julie on a conversation we’d started yesterday and not finished, I felt quite responsible for Lucy who is self confessedly very shy and nervous around people she doesn’t know, and I also wanted to catch up with some Activeo friends I’d not seen for ages for a post Hesfes post mortem and so on. Maybe this is what it’s like to be popular 😉
I was sitting trying to combine two of the three groups and laughing at this American guy who has the funniest life philosophies but is at least open to being ribbed about them when Davies came over to tell me there was an ‘merchunsee’ and that Tarly who had already taken off her socks and abandoned them somewhere (totally against Soft play law!!) had now removed her trousers AND NAPPY and was using her new spiderman type naked skin grip to climb UP THE SLIDE!!! Ah yes, my Tarly, the perfect example of a disciplined HE toddler (and Alison, you are soallowed to laugh as you recall my posts to UKPP when Davies was about her age! 😉 ) retrieved her and joked about the upside being her promising career in the circus before re-dressing her and going to order some lunch.
Kids had a whale of a time there as usual and actually both briefly fell asleep on the way home listening to Peter and the Wolf. I detoured past my parents old house (we lived there til I was 4) on a different route home only to note it was up for sale. Have spoken to my parents tonight and we’re going to arrange a viewing (which I know is probably cruel to those hopeful vendors but wow what a trippy trip down memory lane that will be to walk round the house my parents came home to after they got married and brought both their new born children home to after before leaving 25 years ago with my parents!)
Davies is still wearing a mental black armband about not being bought the sheep at the South of England Show at the weekend so I promised him I’d make him a cuddly sheep, so when Ady got home Davies and I whizzed into town to the fabric shop together and spent a very happy half hour in there. I had told him you used to be able to buy sewing kits of all sorts of cuddly creatures when I was a girl so he marched me up to the counter to ask the lady about them. They don’t stock them so off we went to choose white woolly material, black material for the face and legs, some stuffing, some eyes, some thread and some ribbon as ‘his’ sheep had a farmers blue tag through it’s ear which he wants recreated :-D. He chatted to the lady about the cutting of the material, told her what we would be making, talked her through all our purchases and then discussed with her the best variations of bagging up our purchases and they decided on two seperate bags both of which he carried to the car. He said thank you and goodbye to the lady and as we left I heard her and the other woman there cooing over what a lovely child he was *glow, pride, glow* 🙂
Ady took over feeding and bathing while I made a start on the sheep construction which I then took up to his bedroom and sat on his floor finishing it off and having a text conversation with Ros. He fell asleep so I tucked the finished sheep into his arms and he will wake to find it in the morning 🙂
In all, a lovely day 🙂
Tomorrow is TT1 and TT2 with yet another cross over of one of our HE group also going to TT2, and then straight into yet another manic weekend.
Ah, there we go.
What are you doing with those italics???
Comment by jax — 16 June 2005 @ 10:57 pm
looks lovely thanks Jax 🙂
Oh and not at sure what I was doing with the italics actually but I’ve remedied it now 😉
Comment by Nic — 16 June 2005 @ 11:18 pm
Erm, *need* a piccie of the sheep pls!
Comment by Jules — 17 June 2005 @ 5:41 am
rofl @ Tarly!!
Comment by Sarah — 17 June 2005 @ 7:43 am
Wow supermother or what with the sheep LOL xx
Comment by Karen b — 19 June 2005 @ 3:56 pm