Ah ABC – gotta love their odd backing lyrics, particularly on ‘Look of Love’. Don’t know what I mean? Did it out and have a listen, guarantee you will be laughing.
A pretty good day today really – lurked around the house first thing pondering blog security, reading other peoples’ blogs and watching the HESFes chat list with interest 🙂
About 11am I decided that if I was going to see my Mum today as arranged then I needed to be the one ringing to make the final details so I did. I said that I was going to Sainsburys for a few bits and she offered (shock, knock me down with a feather, slap my cheek and call me Delilah!) ‘why don’t you drop the kids off here first and then you can have a look round Boots (my all time favourite store!) too?’ which is precisely what I did 🙂
Had a lovely hour meandering round all the cosmetics stroking them and testing the colours on the back of my hand (cos of course that is where I would be wearing eye shadow and lipstick) and even had a brief wander down the baby stuff aisle realising for probably the first time that I no longer have a baby and never will do again… then to Sainsburys and I also took the opportunity to sneak home (we only live a mile apart and Sainsburys and Boots is sort of halfway inbetween us) and put the dinner on (beef curry made with stewing steak so the longer cooked the better) before returning back to two very happy to see me children 🙂
Lunch, during which Davies behaved really badly, pulling all his best attention seeking, silly childishness tricks out of the bag 🙁 Scarlett made it worse by being super cute (why do siblings do that?) then luckily my brother got up and that was Davies taken care of for the next couple of hours – they played with all our old lego and fisher price toys, and the Leap Pad we had taken over with us. Scarlett mostly sat on my lap being cute, Dad went off to carry on repainting their bathroom and Mum and I sat and talked about HE. She is finally starting to get it and her questions are far more intelligent and relevant than they previously were. I might even see if she wants to come to the Science Museum in March – she’d be an extra pair of hands on the cross London journey (if you decide not to come Jenny) and it might be nice for her to meet some other people doing it too – it certainly helped to convince Ady.
Home for the kids’ dinners and I had just got Scarlett to sleep when Ady got home. He has been working in Oxford today and is back there tomorrow so has had a two hour journey both ways (and is now flaked out on the sofa!). Davies watched Little Bear in lieu of a bedtime story but then asked for a lesson when I was tucking him in to bed. Sure it was just a timewasting tactic but he did really well – he is starting to recognise some of the more frequently used words straight away which is obviously part of the purpose of the book and although he insists he ‘can’t do it’ he clearly can – so progress continues to be made there 🙂
We listened to one of the cds I got from Amazon which went down well in the car. Davies is getting really good at recognising what instruments are being played and what sort of emotions the music arouses in him. Scarlett just insists ‘I like it Mummy, I like it’ and does a sort of car seat restricted dancing 🙂
Finally we taught Davies how to pat his head and rub his tummy the other night – totally hysterical to watch him trying the first few times but he has totally cracked it and now keeps calling me to see him doing it 🙂
Tomorrow we have Twinkletots – a new place I have not been before – a group with musical instruments and singing and stuff for 2-5 yos and then Tumble Tots in the pm. Davies has already started with the ‘I don’t want to go’ about TT but I have told him we are going and that’s that!
edited to add – CUTENESS – today while he was doing his Leap Pad with the microphone he had to say his name, age, favourite colour etc and his best friend. He thought for all of about a second before yelling ‘BEN!’ into the microphone 🙂 Sheffield looks ever more attractive!
Wooooh, I’m allowed in 🙂
Just wanted to say I have been here really, nothing else to add…
Comment by Jules — 24 February 2005 @ 10:22 pm
lol – and that is plenty good enough for me 🙂
Comment by Nic — 24 February 2005 @ 10:23 pm
thanks for reminding me to check out the phonics leappad stuff before giving to BB for birthday! Actually I might space it out a bit.
Sounds like lovely day for you. Poor Ady
Comment by helen and chris F — 24 February 2005 @ 10:50 pm
erm, just a question, does your password protection mean that bloglines can’t pick up the rss feed, do you know or does anyone else know? I reckon it must do, unless I just missed this myself (quite possible!)
Anyway, hope twinkletots (terrible name but slightly better than ‘music with mummy’ which is what we have round here) goes well.
Comment by Sarah — 25 February 2005 @ 10:35 am
LC and Karen waving from afar\!// 😉
Comment by Karen b — 25 February 2005 @ 10:48 am
Yes it does Sarah – Jax told me that yesterday 🙁 I don’t use bloglines myself so I hope it doesn’t deter those of you who do from checking back here…
Comment by Nic — 25 February 2005 @ 11:39 am
ah well, just don’t take it personally if I don’t get here as quickly as i have been doing! I have to *remember* to visit Jan & Jonathan too as I can’t pick up their feed either. As long as not too many more people go down this route I should be okay!
Comment by Sarah — 25 February 2005 @ 12:18 pm
At least you can pretty much guarantee that every time you visit I will have posted something 🙂 given my frequent blogging habit!
Maybe I should set up an email alert list!
Comment by Nic — 25 February 2005 @ 12:23 pm
rofl, I think i can do without three or four extra emails from you every day!!! That would be a good idea if you weren’t so reliable, but being as you are …
Comment by Sarah — 25 February 2005 @ 1:41 pm
Why can’t you pick Sarah’s feed up Sarah?
Comment by Chris — 25 February 2005 @ 1:57 pm
Clearly I mean’t Nic’s….
Comment by Chris — 25 February 2005 @ 1:57 pm
can you then Chris? Jax said it would kill the feed…
Comment by Nic — 25 February 2005 @ 3:30 pm
I am getting it loud and clear……
Comment by Chris — 25 February 2005 @ 4:56 pm