Magical Mondays today, we picked Ali and Freya up and arrived super efficiently on time. Ali did a drama session today which Scarlett joined in fairly well with before getting fed up and wandering away from and Davies and I stuck with to the end, with Davies really enjoying it. I’m sure it helped that it was Ali running it (he loves Ali 🙂 ) but it is his sort of thing anyway. I always get faintly exasperated with the few who try to spoil it for the rest at these sorts of activities – and indeed the parents who abandon their children to it, particularly when it is their children being disruptive and struggle to understand why the school / work mentality of being *forced* to participate and therefore protesting by being rude or acting silly still surfaces in an entirely voluntary activity like that. 🙄
In the car once everyone had calmed down from asking me questions all at the same time (I say everyone, I mean Davies and Scarlett :lol:) and my phone had stopped telling me I had a text message about 20 times in very quick succession ( 😉 you know who you are!) Davies asked if I thought Mika was doing his own backing singing by him being recorded singing one thing and then it being played back while he sung the other bit. I agreed that could be the case and told him about watching someone on TOTP accompany themselves on the piano and violin on a split screen video which was cutting technology in it’s day. I then mentioned the duet Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole had done after Nat’s death which led to surreal discussion about whether Nat had been a ghost or a skeleton. Davies went straight into MM and drew a skeleton complete with detachable head that it could juggle with, which I entertained myself by singing ‘When I fall in Love’ with for a while when no one was looking 😆 he then drew lots of Doctor Who things and Scarlett did some drawing too before we went through for Ali’s drama. They both returned to the drawing again afterwards and then Davies went off to play Doctor Who with some of the other lads while Scarlett appeared at a loose end for a little while – her two usual playmates – Lulah and Freya had teamed up with each other and were outside – before settling down to play with some ponies quite happily. The Doctor Who game ended and I read Davies a bit out of someone’s Doctor Who book for a while before helping to tidy up and coming home. There is one particular child at MM who I really struggle to see in a positive light and they were particularly irritating to me today which has led to some low level pondering on my part this afternoon. It’s not a cheap activity for us with entrance fee and petrol and although there are some really nice people there I am trying to be objective about what we do and where we spend our money, which friendships could be maintained without the need to attend a specific group on a specific day and precisely what all of us get out of it.
We dropped Ali and Freya home and came home via two supermarkets and a clothing store on the quest for a sun suit for Davies, which we finally got in Sainsburys (thanks for the tip Ros 🙂 ) so that’s that ticked off our list :). Ady picked up some more toy animals at a car boot sale yesterday so they were being played with this afternoon while Doctor Who and the Cybermen was being played on dvd and Davies did an invite for his birthday party. I had a phonecall from the Beaver leader to say they weren’t wearing uniforms tonight and to come in old clothes as they were doing painting, so I gave the children their tea and then we walked round to take Davies to Beavers and give back forms for him to be part of the team for the It’s A Knockout tournament this Saturday (which I’ll miss because I’ll be at work 🙁 ) and to pay for a trip to the local airport next week – Ady’s going along to that one too, I think he is probably more excited at the prospect than Davies is :lol:.
Scarlett and I came home and I painted some henna pictures on her at her request, we danced a bit, looked at some song lyrics online and then she danced some more. 🙂 Ady came home and we all walked round to collect Davies from Beavers.
I’ve just posted pictures of the chicks on a US chicken forum and had my suspicions that Freddie and Rhonda are hens and Punzel is a cockerel seconded (nothing conclusive but I didn’t admit that was what I thought and someone came out with them themselves), noone seems to know about the black ones but I’m almost 100% that Wobble is a cockerel with no real idea about Feathers. Hopefully that gives us our two hens we wanted and maybe 3 cockerels to choose between with Feathers being a definite to keep having come this far so that maybe being the decider on the cockerels with Punzel being the second choice to keep (although if that looks like being the case moving forward I may very well swap Punzel and Rhonda’s bands over given we did that purely on which one came out of the box first when we had the bands ready to go on 😆 The plus of only 2 hens is that if we did then keep a cockerel we could maybe keep one or two of a second batch of chicks we let them hatch themselves, it’d be nice to watch it happen naturally having done it the ‘lab’ way first. 🙂
I had my phone on vibrate in my pocket this morning, and was trying to have a coherent conversation with someone when those texts started arriving. It became very hard to concentrate!
Comment by Sarah — 05 June 2007 @ 5:11 am
Home-ed group can be trying.
Yeah go Rhonda 🙂 I’m glad she’s a hen (even if she becomes Punzle 😉 )
Comment by layla — 05 June 2007 @ 9:43 am
someone else has just suggested that Rhonda and Punzel are cockerels while Freddie and both the black ones are hens. Can’t believe Wobble is anything other than a great big cockerel tbh so that can’t have come across in the picture properly as he’s HUGE. Looks like we’re on for two hens at least though, well definitely Freddie anyway 🙂
Comment by Nic — 05 June 2007 @ 9:54 am
Hiya,
Only three more weeks indoors at MMs and then we’ll be outside in Preston Park – tends to reduce the stress factor a bit – and is free (unless you submit to ice cream pressure!)
I know what you mean about the disrupting thing. Personally, I think kids need to know that they can either join in or not join in – that being there and disrupting is anti-social, so not an option. That is what I have aimed for with our two – *hoping* that they have pretty much got the message now! Trouble is that some parents really want their kids to join in – so pressure them to do so – and then don’t seem able to deal with the consequences. Can’t understand it really because that just means you end up with a pattern of disruption that become their normal way of behaving in groups…
Comment by Allie — 05 June 2007 @ 10:11 am