Ah more domestic bliss and gender stereotyping abounds chez Goddard today. I have batch cooked chilli for the rest of the month, made two loads of pizza dough (one of which was turned into pizza for Tarly and garlic bread for me, Ady and Davies and eaten today, one of which is ready for pizza for me and Ady tomorrow for dinner). Ady’s done more gardening stuff. He’s done loads actually and the garden is looking fab and really tidy – and as he’s done lots of chopping back hedges and re-establishing edges it is slightly bigger too – every little helps! 🙂
The children and I looked at some library books before returning them – a couple of really good ones. Davies had a pretty good go and reading some of a Dr Seuss one and we really enjoyed this one too. I love that their sense of humour is getting slightly more sophisicated and they ‘get’ stuff like that now rather than needing everything explained to the point of it losing it’s comedy value.
The children are enjoying having him home but I think we are suffering from 10 day in disruption to daily routine and need to get out of the house tomorrow.
We did go out this afternoon – having finally mastered pedalling (and that is simply pedalling with full support of stabilisers) Davies rode his bike and the rest of us walked into Lancing so that we could return some (very overdue :oops:) library books and have a quick mooch round the charity shops. He did really well actually although I have to say that far from the idyllic vision of a small boy learning to ride a bike with the warm and proud encouragement of his parents, riding through wide green safe open spaces it was more of a testing of our patience (will you just bloody look where you are going and manage to steer at the same time as pedalling already?!) and his skills were honed more by the fear of falling off down an alleyway or narrow pavement and falling into dog poo or broken glass – Centerparcs it ain’t!
So that took about an hour and a half and Ady and I took it in turns to walk alongside Davies or walk holding Tarly’s hand which was nice.
Malice has taken some syringed food and water from Ady today, not loads but enough to not be too concerned. She seems ever more settled despite our almost constant experiments to see if she can see anything – we’re getting more scientific with props such as torches and lengths of wool. I got excited tonight when she was following the progress of the hoover until I realised she was just listening to it! Doh! 😳
We’d had half a plan to go camping with Chris and Julie for a few nights this week which obviously won’t happen now so we are planning to get out for the day somewhere tomorrow as the week is starting to go by quickly and nice though it is to get stuff done around the house I think the children (and I!) would benefit more from having Ady around to enjoy time with rather than use him as some sort of handyman while he’s off work.
Davies was late to sleep again – he’s got this little V Tech notebook thing my Mum brought round ages ago and he quite often plays with in bed. He’d found a melody maker thing with a little onscreen keyboard you composed tunes on and was playing with that, so we got invited up to listen to his composition.