We have returned from our expedition out of the house 🙂
We went to the library and waited for ages for a carparking space. This is a particular parking rage incident inducing car park actually – I myself have had at least two altercations in it with fellow motorists. Today I refrained from yelling at anyone though, so that was good. Scarlett chose 3 story books, I had a very quick peek at the fiction but found nothing to inspire me. I borrowed The Time Travellers Wife a while back but the library does this Top Ten thing where they have the top ten books available to borrow but you can only have them for a week and I never started it so ended up taking it straight back unread – It hasn’t been on the shelf ever since, so I came away without anything. Davies found an Usborne book on puppets – which on first glance looks pretty good, I picked up a book on the food chain as it’s something we’ve briefly touched on but I wanted to pick up on properly and Davies chose Stuart Little 2 on dvd to borrow, which he is watching right now and appears every bit as dreadful as Stuart Little but has both the children rapt and as it features no bad language or physical violence and even Scarlett is aware that mice do not infact wear clothes, talk, drive or are available for adoption into human families I suppose it can do them no harm 😉
After the library we headed up to Boots. I needed some magic balm tissues, we needed to get birthday gifts for Liam and Lily who are coming over for tea tomorrow – it’s actually nearly a month since it was their birthdays but we were away for their parties and so I posted their cards and I had shoved a fiver each in them but had to open the cards and steal the money back before posting them due to financial crisis! So I’d told Mel I had presents for them here for next time we saw them. Scarlett chose some Barbie perfume for Lily – she has some herself and her and Lily always play for ages with all Scarlett’s dressing table make up stuff so I’m sure Lily will be pleased even if Mel isn’t! Davies chose some art straws with little connectors for Liam which seems appropriate – I know he loves arts and crafts. Scarlett also had a £7 gift token from an inflatable Dora chair that she got for Christmas and had split at the seam (Ok this was mainly as a result of her and Davies jumping on it but Ady took it back to exchange and they’d sold out so he got a gift token instead) so she chose a remote control Polly Pocket car which was in the sale. She’s been coverting Davies’ Herbie RC car so is delighted with this and is currently driving it all round the lounge. Gotta be good for co-ordination or something surely :-).
Scarlett has had a growth spurt – I noticed first last week when she was standing clearly taller than both Jack and Maisie and also realised that all of her knickers were on the snug side (which could also be down to tumble drying) so bought her some new ones at Tesco last week. I notice today that all her skirts are now knee length where they were long or knicker-skimming where they were short – admittedly most of them are age 2-3, so I think a grand trying on session of the stuff in her wardrobe is in order and maybe some ebaying of anything outgrown.
Right tidy up and tea time, might be back later but then again I suspect I will have nothing left to say!
“but then again I suspect I will have nothing left to say!”
Hmm. Yeah right. 😉
Your blogs have got me through the day today, Nic 🙂
Yeah, I was unreasonably put out when I looked at 4pm but you hadn’t posted anything new since lunch time … “But she promised!” I thought to my self petulantly.
I need to sort out my lot’s clothes – I seem to have to do it far too frequently, I thought they’d slow down at some point. Need to make some long lists of what they all need too – ouch. P&M have managed all winter without a pair of tights between them – last year’s (even though they’re all 9-10s) didn’t fit, and they’re so expensive and won’t fit next year that I couldn’t bear the thought of buying new ones!