Saturday morning and all is calm for now! Kids are sat infront of the Fimbles eating their lunch – the request was for letters (alphabites) so they both have those and some fishfingers – well it means i don’t have to cook again later!! Mum and Dad are due to arrive in the next hour or so which will be great – have not seen Dad since September although Mum came up for a long weekend about three weeks ago. Looking forward to having some long chats about where our life is going to take us over the next few months – all a bit shaky at the moment – this will make more sense in a month or so but basically we don’t know where we will be living or what we will be doing in six months time – thank god we have already made the decision to HE otherwise worrying about finding a school for Monster would be high on the agenda and would also come into the equation if and when we finally buy another house.
Have been fairly lax about doing anything organised this week – Monster has been alternatively being either Buzz (Lightyear) or Rudolph (the red nosed reindeer) so he has not taken much entertaining other than the occassional agreement for me to be Woody or Mummy Reindeer. Teeny is just exploring everything at the moment – her vocalising seems to increase each day and some very real sounding words are emerging now. Next week I aim to take up all the nice people who offered to talk about their religions and get round to sorting a full list of questions to get us started. I also want to make a scrap book type thing for Monster – partially to start organising what we are doing and building a record of stuff but also as a tidying idea too! We also need to spend some time making a birthday card for Teeny to send to Cbeebies – think I need to practise my skills at drawing Fimbles and Teletubbies – so far I am only good at Brum or Bob!!
Today I worked so Lynda was round to play with the kids. I overheard them talking about which was the odd one out – Lynda was showing Monster groups of blocks where one was a different shape, size or colour and he was picking out the odd one – very impressive and also very reminiscent of one of the bits on Sesame Street where there would be four kids – three leaping around like lunatics and one reading a book or something similar with a catchy little tune about ‘one of these kids is doing his own thing!’. Later they went for a walk around the block and this afternoon Monster carried on playing with the blocks and Teeny clambered around the place and climbed upstairs about three million times. I tried to do some crayoning with her but she just ate them! Monster hijacked the game and did a fairly good replication of writing his name copying my letters. He also drew an excellent circle, great straight lines and crosses and recognisable impressions of squares, triangles and rectangles! He has been ‘Buzz’ today – worn the Buzz outfit everywhere – including their walk! and we have all had to address him as Buzz and be other Toy Story characters – Teeny is Jessie, and Lynda was Zurg – I think I was Rex in the end!! Still it beats the Rudolph obsession – he certainly has no issues with imaginative play!! A new precocious child story from bedtime last night – read him Mr Snow and used the usual line about needing a wee to escape the room. He was having none of it so I elaborated with ‘Mummy really, really needs a wee wee Darling. I need a wee or I will go pop’ He stroked my cheek, looked deep into my eyes and said ‘You are a drama queen Mummy!’
So here we are, the intention to start HEing Monster and Teeny was made about two months ago and I have spent the interim period signing up to countless yahoo groups, asking loads of people about their ideas, opinions etc, spending a fortune on Amazon on all sorts of HE books and generally veering between wonder at what the hell we are thinking about and relief that the dread of Monster starting school in a year or so has now been removed. Oh the joy of saying ‘Okay then you can’ to him when he says ‘ me not want to go to school Mummy, me just stay here with you!’. So our first *real* project is to learn a little about religion – something which interests me anyway and will be a great ongoing project for the future, one to test exactly how we are going to go about this whole HE business and so on… have made a fair few contacts on the Muddle Puddle, EO and Fluff groups who are happy to answer our questions (once we know what they are!) about muslims, jehovahs witnesses and various other religions, some great recommendations for sites to check out, some further reading and of course the possibility of some sort of hama bead related products!!!