Is possibly not everyones ;).
Davies woke to his pound under his pillow from yesterday’s lost tooth. He’s never really been into the idea of the tooth fairy as it wasn’t really something we talked about until after he’d already shared his suspicion that Father Christmas might not be real. However he is still savvy enough to expect a quid if he puts it under his pillow so I did indeed swap it over last night after he fell asleep.
I read a couple of library books to Scarlett and Davies read me the remainder of the book he started yesterday (Pet to school day – we decided the illustrations were good and very Quentin Blake in Roald Dahl books but the book itself was pretty lame and the storyline not worth struggling with the not very friendly for early readers words. I read it to him again once he’d read it to himself ) and Has Anyone seen the crocodile? by Colin West.
Davies gathered up his wallet and some money while Scarlett raided her piggybank and found a purse to bring out her carefully counted out £1.56 and we walked into Lancing. We took a route never walked before which included all sorts of roads we don’t normally go down and the discovery of some new alleyways. We really want to do one of those penny walks where heads is left and tails is right but never seem to organised ourselves to be in a suitable place to do it and time enough to risk walking in circles. Mid walk down a really quiet close Davies suddenly said ‘STOP!’ and made us all stand and listen to whatever we could hear.
At the library they both talked about their books, got their stickers, medals and as it was mad busy in there I said I’d print off their certificates myself later in the week when I am working rather than hold up the queue further. We beat a speedy retreat from the chaos of children that was in there and went to the postoffice sorting office as I had a parcel to collect. It turned out to be another competition win (my third so far) of a Thundercats DVD box set :lol:. We then wandered round the bookshop, newsagent and various charity shops so the children could spend some of the money burning holes in their purses. Davies chose a viking helmet and a Rataouille toy for 20pence each, Scarlett found a cuddly duck billed platypus for 50p and they both got some sweets at the newsagents. Then we walked home by yet another route chatting all the way.
Scarlett has developed an interest in duck billed platypuses having been introduced to them on her Zoo hospital DS game and she recognised the cuddly purple toy as one straight away (not sure I would have done). She then proceeded to ask me lots of questions about them, none of which I could answer so we had a happy half hour later in the day googling, youtubing and wikipediaing to learn more about them.
Once home we had a plan to eat popcorn that was scuppered by us not having any. My Dad rang to ask a favour of me popping along to a garage door shop near us for some leaflefts as it closed for lunch before he would have been able to get there so we dashed back out again this time in the car to get the leaflets for him and to Sainsburys for some popping corn. Once home we ate our corn, I drank lots of tea and we watched Penelope. Whilst eating popcorn Davies’ other front tooth came out so he is now gappy, lispy and as of tomorrow morning another quid better off!
Dad called round to collect his leaflets and stopped for a quick coffee, Davies and Scarlett worked their way round the house rating each room for ‘coolness’ and ‘fun’ – not sure what their criteria for either was. Then Davies did some xboxing while Tarly and I were on the laptop learning about platypuses. We ended up watching some of our own youtube stuff with this particular one having us in fits of laughter again (tinged with degrees of OMG how young do they look? for me) which we were still doing when Ady arrived home.
I read some bedtime stories which have been missed for the last week and then it was bedtime. We all have a cough which I am undecided as to whether is a cold or some form of human kennel cough brought on by sleeping in tents and inhaling campfires but other than that I think we are restored and rested sufficiently to get back to normal again tomorrow.
omg that was too cute 😆 and they look soooo young!
Comment by Liza — 18 August 2008 @ 11:46 pm