This morning was a very blustery day – just the sort for a hunny based adventure involving riding around in upturned umbrellas, hanging off helium balloons and other such Hundred Acre wood type jaunts. Good for drying washing too 🙂 I had planned a lot of not much for today, but felt the need to get out the house so loaded the kids into the car and went into town.
For once, Worthing town centre was quite pleasant to be in – the sun was shining, the sea was an attractive shade of bluey green as opposed to grey and there appeared to be rather fewer teen mothers pushing their tantrumming toddlers round New Look while puffing cigarettes smoke into their faces.
We did a quick circuit of The Works (got the two books Jax posted about, both of which I had previously looked at when Ady was with me, and a Learning Fundamentals folder book and a couple of dot to dot books for Davies and some finger crayons for Scarlett.), MVC for some Dr Seuss dvds – it has continued to be a popular theme here for a while so I thought I’d check the price of the Mike Myers Cat in the Hat film and found a double box dvd pack with several of the books cartoons on it – have just watched them both and they have proved very popular here, so that was a good investment.
Scarlett is being really really two today. She had a bad night so is very tired and cross, everything is annoying her, Davies is making it worse by deliberately winding her up. I think I might be glad when their bedtime arrives today!
What else? Had a nice day yesterday although Scarlett was quite testing then too. I went off to do the food shopping in the morning and then we went to Chris and Julie’s in the afternoon. Scarlett is taking a while to totally recover from the cp and is still being nagged a lot not to pick the scabs which in turn makes her grumpy, her sleeping has been appauling since she was poorly so she is perpetually tired by lunchtime which is then too late for her to sleep, then she goes to bed really early and is awake again for most of the middle of the night. Sigh!
Tomorrow we have nothing specific planned although I have at least two people I should ring to arrange meet ups with which I might try and achieve later. I got an email from educationcity to say they were going to cut off my trial as I had not subscribed unless I had not had a chance to trial it properly in which case I could extend it by a further 5 days – so I have 🙂 Might see if I can engage Davies on that for a while tomorrow and try and have some one to one with Scarlett on something like puzzles or books to try and calm it all back down again.
Right, off to tidy up a bit rather than yell at the kids for distracting me while I try to blog…
*Just here to wave* xx
Comment by Karen b — 18 April 2005 @ 9:19 pm
“Really Really Two”. Thats such a good phrase, I might have to borrow it at some point! DH and I were wondering earlier if here is any correlation between the 2yo tantrums and those we’ll suffer when they are teenagers since B seems to have developed a cracking snort whilst folding his arms, sticking his nose in the air and turning his back! Beautiful photos as always 🙂
Comment by Sally — 18 April 2005 @ 9:33 pm