A nice if pretty hectic day today.
Up at the ungodly hour of 6am when Ady left for inner city London and by 8am we had already watched Cat in the Hat ( a new dvd – the Mike Myers one which Davies adores although he is a bit shocked of the use of the word ‘bloody’ in it 😉 ) and scattered the lounge with megablocks, the toy cars and pens and paper, I had gotten two loads of washing done and ready to go out to dry. Still managed to be rushing around like loons two hours later when it came to getting out the house mind you 😉
Arrived at Ali’s and as the kids headed out into her garden upon arrival was able to enjoy the cup of tea and chat on offer 🙂 The kids played really well again with minimal upsets and set tos. I like the way the three of them constantly change their games and who they are playing with, with them changing to all three joining in the same game to two of them going off to something together while the third entertained themself. Also having observed Davies play with F for a few hours in one quite specific way it was very interesting to watch the almost total personality change when his friend Liam arrived to play this afternoon. At Ali’s he was mature, sensible, mainly sensitive and very nice and caring towards the two younger girls (most of the time 😉 ) with Liam he turned back into a school boyish 4 yo being rowdy, boisterous and cheeky. He sat telling jokes about poo and bums and I suppose being the very junior version of a ‘lad’ – if he knew how to break wind on demand he would have done 😉 I know he probably needs to behave like this at times but for me it’s another great strike for HE that he does not get into that mindset for 7 hours, 5 days a week as I have a feeling it would not be long before the school boy humour overtook the rest of his personality and the lovely boy I know and love would be lost with only the briefest glance still in evidence. Scarlett appeared at one point with a dead bee and told us about how it was dead and didn’t work anymore! All three of them had a good look and poke at it. Ali and I did talk about how if they were older we would have gotten the microscope out, disected it and otherwise done some science-y stuff with it. The kids enjoyed lunch al fresco and Ali I continued to chat with a reciprocal visit to our house arranged for after HESFES.
Home and enough time to tidy up a smidgeon, check emails, do some financial stuff and get out a few different toys before Mel arrived with Liam and Lily. The boys played very noisily with brio and dinosaurs and the girls played with the dollies and some glittery bits and beads on a tray – hugely stereotypical gender play there then 😉 Ady arrived home in time to make them all some tea and then they left (with much protesting, they had had a lovely time!) and our two were chucked in the bath, given milk and off to bed.
Tomorrow is Home Ed group and the theme is underwater – we have a big group activity of creating an underwater scene in a shoe box type thing – have painted two shoeboxes blue inside and weather permitting the plan is to go to the beach with a bucket each in the morning and collect some pebbles, shells, seaweed etc and make some crafty stuff like sparkly fish and seahorses, starfish etc to be stuck inside it. Also might even get round to that HESFES list!
Oh, I thought that Cat in the Hat was dreadful! There isn’t a chance on this planet I’d want to watch it again or even give it shelf space in the house. 🙁
Yes, I’m planning on getting started on my hesfes list tomorrow.
Comment by jax — 10 May 2005 @ 10:58 pm
I wouldn’t bother with the HESFES list – it’s a bloody nightmare. It’s the trying to pack for about four different weather systems, and four nights in different hotels beforehand that is freaking me out.
Comment by Joyce — 10 May 2005 @ 10:59 pm
I’m with you Jax, I think it’s rubbish! I really like the animated versions of some of the stories we have and was hoping there were more available but they *love* this. Anything to reinforce the current love fest of books that Dr Seuss has brought about in this house though 😉
Comment by Nic — 10 May 2005 @ 11:18 pm
lol, yeah, it was awful – only good thing about it was that we didn’t have to pay to watch it!
Comment by Alison — 11 May 2005 @ 8:37 am