We all slept in this morning and Scarlett woke with a runny tummy. I suspect it is a side effect of the antibiotics as she is otherwise fine and unbothered about it, just very frequently visiting the loo :(. The patches are already looking like they are healing though so fingers crossed it is working and she will soon finally be free of it. She claimed not to be up to our planned arrangement of going to the beach with Lucy and The Rs and Davies was fairly reluctant too so rather than force socialising and deal with the consequences I agreed and we stayed home. And I bowed to their request of staying in their pyjamas until they needed to get changed for Badgers. Although I confess this was partially with reducing the amount of laundry to do before we go away next week :).
Davies played some DS and some X box, did some drawing, watched some Ben 10 and did lots of flopping about.
Scarlett played loads of DS -and having looked at the box again I notice it is Zoo Hospital she has, not Zoo Vet and it continues to be a hit :). She is recognising words like ‘panting and sweating’ ‘laboured breathing’ ‘blood and skin’ and so on. No idea if she would recognise them out of context on the DS but it’s still good. She has also got quite the little expert on diagnosing symptoms too and appears to be checking things in response to what the animal is suffering rather than simple random choices so that’s good :). I’ve never limited DS time before, as indeed I don’t really limit any activities but I did remove both their DSs from them tonight when I discovered they’d both taken them to bed and were still playing them at 9pm!
I’ve given lots of cuddles, watched a really interesting programme about volcanoes which the children also dipped in and out of, spent ages online looking at fancy dress sites, ebay and costume ideas for a couple of things we have coming up to wear fancy dress to. Davies is fine for both as he’s still not totally outgrown the dressingup clothes we have that will be suitable, Scarlett has outgrown all of them so I’ve just got her something off ebay for the most pressing one and can sort the other one out later, I’ve an eye on something for me if a charity shop trawl in my lunchbreak tomorrow doesn’t prove fruitful and Ady is likely to be sporting something made from curtains as I can’t find a ready made costume for what he wants anyway. Might ring round a couple of fancy dress hire places tomorrow and see if I have any luck there.
I also spent some time plotting our week away next week. We have a couple of firm places we want to go, I wanted to have a list of other possibles and some venues for camping lined up along the way. We won’t book anything as I’m guessing nowhere will be full next week, particularly if petrol continues to be an issue but we wanted to have some postcodes of decent looking sites to stick in the satnav to head towards.
Ady surprised us all by coming home for lunch and then he was also home in time to come to Badgers so I didn’t do my usual brisk walk / run but we did spend the whole hour and a quarter the children were in Badgers walking to three different supermarkets and doing a route past a few old haunts from our younger days and quite literally walking down memory lane as we talked about times gone by and friends we’ve had. We also bought an apple each to eat in the last supermarket so I got an extra fruit portion too 🙂
Davies and Scarlett finished off making some puppets at Badgers they’ve been working on. They don’t get to bring them home til the end of term but we got a sneak preview of them through the window and they look excellent. They are felt puppets they’ve sewn themselves (through I suspect pre made holes) and then stuck on details. Davies said he did most of the sewing himself but had to be helped when some of it got a bit muddled! 😆 He is not fantastically coordinated with skills like that so I’m not surprised, he still struggles to cut with scissors without using both hands and holding each finger hole of the scissors with a different hand, like shears!
Home for stories, I read a Joan of Arc book and one of my favourites ‘ Diffendoofer Day’ which was a story Dr Seuss had started but never finished and got pulled together from his ideas and completed after he died by a couple of other authors.
Ady cooked a lovely dinner and I watched The Apprentice and all the various after The Apprentice shows (you’re fired, you’re hired etc.). I’ve done some flickring from the weekend that I missed doing on Sunday night for some reason.