And I think I had better leave the kids alone too!
The Amazon issue rumbles on – hopefully either the new tennant or my old next door neighbour (who of course their current next door neighbour) will ring me and I can get the parcel sent back to Amazon for a refund.
While all this was going on, and further phone chats with Rachel and 4 year old boys and how to deal with them, Julie to see if we wanted a piano (yes, but we already have one waiting at my parents until we have space for it!) and Ady to say he is leaving even earlier on Sunday to go away for the week the kids have been left to their own devices pretty much today. And got on very well on it too I have to say 🙂 Davies pretty much dressed himself (although those clothes have long been discarded in favour of the Peter Pan top and hat, worn with just his pants to be Jack (and the beanstalk!) ) , they have played in every room and with a vast array of toys, mainly clearing up after themselves too! They played for ages in Tarly’s room, with everything off the bed to create a camp with a trampoline, and they are currently playing a very noisy game with the Dora house in the lounge. Every so often I get a drift of one of their very funny play conversations such as :
S: Davies?
D: I’m not Davies
S: Jack?
D: Yes Jill?
S: ready?
D: yes Jill
S&D: Arghhhhhhhhhh!
I remember playing stuff like that with my brother when we were kids for hours – it’s lovely 🙂 They have also both played on the pc today for a bit. Scarlett had a first play with the Dora cdrom she got for Christmas. I am pretty impressed with it actually – looks like there’s loads on there to keep her going through various ability levels – it says 3+ and although she struggles to use the mouse she certainly enjoyed playing with it today. I’m sure it’s not but her hand just seems too small for the mouse and she really struggles to click it. I have got a smaller mouse for my laptop so maybe I’ll set it up on there for her next time (she says shuddering at the thought of Minx touching my beloved laptop!). She surprised me by knowing all the colours and shapes on there and surprised me even more by paying such close attention to it. There was one bit where Boots needed something to catch leaves falling off trees so they looked in Backpack – I was talking to Davies so paying no attention and Scarlett was yelling ‘bucket, bucket!’ at me and pointing to it on screen – bless 🙂
Davies then had a go on his Thomas one which I think is probably not really challenging him enough any more but he refuses to go up to the next DK Play and Learn even though he finds the current one ridiculously easy so I need to relax about pushing him ’til he’s ready.
They were back playing one of their mad games when a Book People order arrived – which has some fab stuff in it. A set of I wonder Why books, a poem for the day book, a make a life size skeleton book and a set of young Oxford history of Britain and Ireland amoung other things. They stopped playing to help open the parcel, then wanted the dinosaur book from the I wonder why series, Scarlett got bored halfway through and tried to get me to read something else, Davies wanted me to carry on reading and it all got shouty between them! Scarlett went and got her Dora house while Davies and I finished that one and also read the reptile one before I escaped and they have resumed playing nicely together. Clearly they don’t need me getting in the way of their games trying to educate them 🙂
Oooh, is that young history set the one with 5 books for £7.99? I was umming and aahing over that yesterday, though at that price, it seems daft not to buy it, lol! Does it look good? Was also wondering about the life-size skeleton one …
Ugh, I keep trying to make Lulah learn to use the mouse properly, and she’s blooming useless at it! Can’t wait for her to get it sorted 😉
Yeah that’s the one. Such a good price and it comes with one of those clear zipped bag things which I don’t want for the books but always feel I shouldn’t throw away 🙂 The I wonder why ones are fab too 🙂 Not sure how the skeleton one will pan out yet – it looks pretty similar to a make these dinosaurs usborne one I got D for Christmas and ended up doing myself (it currently resides in a corner of his bedroom, played with only by the cats who keep batting the stegosaurus round in the middle of the night!) – dead cheap though so even if it sits on the shelf for a couple of years (like most of the books I buy which are way too old for the kids yet but are too good a bargain to miss!) it’ll be worth it!
That’s what’s so annoying with S and the mouse – she’s more than capable of playing the game if she can only sort the mouse control out…
Ooh, I’ve ordered the skeleton-thingy too, ready for when she’s older (building up a nice collection ..!)
Umm I was wondering about that set of five but didn’t bite. I have had the wonder why set for a while. When the SALT was here the other day LC had those books out and the SALT sort of sniggered at the I wonder why Greeks built temples – sort of to say that’s a bit too hard for her isn’t it – just to prove a point LC then went and got 101 Science experiments and started wanting me to read it to her – SALT just didn’t have a leg to stand on LOL