It might be here awhile 🙂
In the words of the much quoted song I did indeed have a bad day. It’s been a bad week really, not all of which will make it to be dissected here but by the skin of my teeth I think I pulled it round at the bitter end and I’ve got the weekend to work on improvement techniques.
Today Scarlett played with a space jigsaw for a while until Davies’ game got more interesting looking so she decamped to play with him instead. He had got out the big play mat with road, hospital, school, police station etc. and set up all the various emergency services vehicles from the toy car box. He read a few of the various words on the mat as he went – he is coming to terms with the idea that actually he *can* read and that this is A Good Thing rather than something he should be denying. Slow and steady definitely, but getting there all the same :). He then wanted some people to play with on it so I suggested the lego people might be about the right size so he dug a handful of those out of the lego box and set it all up. That was the point Tarly decided it looked interesting and went to join in, taking soft toys with her and totally buggering up all the carefully laid out dimensions :lol:.
I packaged up a load of ebay sales – I sold ten items in the end for nearly £70, not quite as much as I’d have hoped but a pretty good conversion into cash from things hanging in the wardrobe. :). Took forever to do that and then we walked in the drizzle and wind to the post office to send them.
We came back for lunch and then Tarly put a Barbie film on (12 dancing princesses I think – I can’t quite bring myself to watch :lol:). Davies watched for a while – it is a film after all 😉 but he gave up too and gathered up various pens and paper and props and turned an old Stella bottled beer cardboard box into a TV set complete with various backdrops, scenery, characters and floors. He made up three ‘films’ with rabbits starring in the first and second and an alien in the third. He showed them to an audience of Scarlett and various soft toys, then me and later when Ady got home he saw them too. In terms of plotline and dialogue he remained about the same all three times proving he did at least have some sort of plan rather than a totally ad lib performance. 😆
It was tea time by then so I put on Carrie’s War which I’d picked up at the library on Wednesday on dvd. Scarlett asked a few questions about evacuation and made a few observations such as ‘they’ll miss their mummy and daddy’ but them lost interest but Davies saw it through and ended up sitting on my lap for the last half hour or so. He asked loads of questions and clearly remembered bits and pieces of chats we’d had about some of the issues refered to in the film before. My Granny was evacuated to Cornwall during WW2 and kept contacts with the people who took her in for some 40 years afterwards and my Dad had cousins evacuated to North Wales from London to stay with them (he recalls nicking his cousins sweet rations :lol:) so it is something we have touched on before. And of course it is refered to in Peter Pan II (known in this household as ‘The Jane One’).
I sat with them both as they fell asleep tonight – some two hours apart 🙄 so although we’ve had our moments today I know we ended the day and the weekdays on a high. Tomorrow will be better 🙂
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Comment by Nic — 14 January 2007 @ 12:25 am
Teh BBC “Evacuation” program produced lots of questions and interest here, not seen Carrie’s War but I’ll look ouf for it.
Comment by t-bird — 14 January 2007 @ 4:26 am
PS Like the blog format (and don;t ask why Mrs Early Night is reading blogs at 4:30!!!!
Comment by t-bird — 14 January 2007 @ 4:27 am