Lovely day :-)

Various playing went on this morning including lots of watching Discovery Kids while I did laundry related stuff. They also played for ages with the Dora house which has suddenly become a great favourite toy again having sat unplayed with for months in Tarly’s bedroom.

We had to pop round the shops to get bread so I tasked them both with finding all the letters in their names between here and the shops. Davies was on the way there and Tarly on the way back. He found A and E on a WATER cover, S on a house name plate for a house called ‘Shangrila’ down our road, V on a Vauxhall Vectra, I on a lamppost with Brighton written on it and D on some letters on the poster on the phone box. He then helped Scarlett find the letters in her name although she found the R on the ER on the post box and S on the headline of the A frame advertising the local paper outside the shops. Davies also spelt out ‘car park’ from a toy sign this morning further reassuring me that actually he can read he just doesn’t! 🙂

I’d given them three 2 pence pieces when we went to Paradise Park the other day as they like to throw money in the various waterfalls and fountains and make a wish as we go round but Davies had only used one so had two two pences left. As we left the house he asked if that was enough to buy a kinder egg for him and Scarlett. I said it wasn’t but as he’d been so lovely to ask I’d give him the extra pound (they are 52 pence each at the local shop) so he picked up and paid for his two kinder eggs while I got bread.

We came home and I debated making cheese scones for so long that Alison’s van pulled round the corner while I was still thinking about it. The children played with their kinder egg toys. Scarlett was slightly unwelcoming as I’d said to them to tidy up quick and put away anything they didn’t want everyone to play with together. Now unusually for most children I know (which is not a wide cross section admittedly 😉 ) Scarlett really loves her stuffed cuddly toys. She has a whole heap of them that live on her bed and get brought into the lounge every morning and returned to her room every night. They all have names (although the name tends to be their species with a y on the end – elephanty, tigery and unicorny being current favourites) and she generally selects at least four to leave the house with her whenever we go out. She is very precious about them and really would rather that no one touches them, particularly other children who might play with them ‘the wrong way’ and not understand their very particular personalities :roll:. So she was crying because she’d not tidied them away into her room before Davies said ‘Too late!!!’ and opened the door to Tilda, Lije and Lulah. We sorted that out and they all ran off to play.

Alison and I had a lovely day swapping locations with them between Davies’ room, the lounge and the kitchen. I cooked lasagne which ended up only eaten by grown ups as Ady came home and made endless rounds of toasted sandwiches and Alison left us an alarmingly small bag which contains our home for a week come next weekend! 🙂

They left and we put the children to bed, watched BB and I’m about to go to bed. Ady’s away on Tuesday night for work so I’m working up to mournful blogposts for the day and evening in preparation 🙂