A fairly relaxed and slow start to the day here with Ben 10 first thing, naturally :rolls:
After last night’s chat with Davies about foetal development we found a great short film on youtube which was perfect. That led to discussion about Julie’s baby and it’s current development and then to talk about premature babies so we watched this film to learn more about that. That led to discussion about their length and weight and size at birth so we looked at Davies’ first ever photo and Scarlett’s first ever photo for some comparisons. Frankly who knows where all that could have led but Lucy and The Rs arrived :lol:.
I think we had a mostly good visit, the children played outside lots and it wasn’t without some frictions and tears but Lucy and I managed a fair bit of chatting. I also sat and went through the pen drawer and chucked out all the dried out felt tips, sharpened all the pencils and pulled out all the bits of wax crayon then sat and peeled all the paper off them while we chatted which was quite theraputically relaxing :).
After they left I googled for thinsg to do with old wax crayons and came up with melted crayon art and remoulding them into interesting shaped new crayons as the most interesting. We don’t have any suitable moulds at the moment but we did set up a candle and do some melted wax crayon art which was a very interesting art material to work with.
We got interupted by Maureen, our lovely neighbour coming to bring a bottle of wine for Ady and I as a thank you for all the many, many as seen on TV plants and flowers Ady has been supplying her with lately. She also brought a couple of packets of sweets for the children and then asked if they wanted to go over and visit her new puppy. Which of course they did :). So off they went while I sat clutching my wine and wondering quite what Charley would have made of it all 😆
I was then remarkably efficient and fed the children, they tidied and got into pjs while I got our dinner on for later, ran a bath, lit a fire and hoovered, read them some Famous Five and we all watched Ady on TV before they went off to bed.
Ady arrived home just as The Apprentice ended and we had a lovely curry and plenty of post-TV chat. Tomorrow I’m off to work for the day which I’m looking forward to.