Davies has learnt to wink. With both eyes. I can only wink with with my right eye closed 😉
Yesterday Davies emptied a wallet and piled all the money up in denominations, counted each lot and then asked how to work out how much he had altogether. Some of the piles he could add up himself (including counting up to 16 in 2s which I was very impressed about having never done that with him at all). I showed him how to use X on a calculator and he added up each little pile either with the calculator or by himself and wrote down all the totals, then used the calculator to add it all up. Then we came up with a list of all the things he could buy for £2.69. He’s cemented this by watching Class TV megamaths this morning on division calling out loads of the answers to things I had no idea he knew 🙂
Scarlett woke in the night yelling and ended up in bed with me while Ady went and slept in her bed. I woke up this morning to find her stroking my wrist where I’ve had a practise go at the henna painting (where I can hide it under my watch for work 🙂 ). She was looking at it in wonderment saying ‘that’s beautiful Mummy, how did you do it? Can you do me?’ and then went off to my bathroom to practise on herself with my eyeliner creating designed on both her hands she wants me to do with henna later 🙂
Scarlett is currently more covered in cuts and brusies than usual having had a run in with a razor shell in the bath which resulted in a cut on her knee which keeps reopening and now has a long chicken scratch above it where leg leg was in the way when one of the chicks took off for one of their funny little flappy flies in the garden. She’s also got a huge bruise on her hip from a collision with the door last week and last night when washing her hair I found an unexplained cut on her head too.
They both really enjoyed having Claudia here, Davies especially. It was really good to see them running round playing with someone older than their usual playmates who really added something to their game. Yesterday morning while I was still pretending to be asleep under my duvet on the sofa I listened to Davies and Claudia’s conversation for a while which covered topics as diverse as Mika, earthquakes (including an excellent description of how they happen from C with D adding in bits here and there), X box games and that cute thing children do where they recount a story to someone who was there at the time including retelling them what they’d done ‘and then you said this and then I did that’ type stuff.
I’ve booked the party venue hall for both of their birthday parties this morning in a show of utter organisation. I won’t be doing anything about Tarly’s other than that yet but at least I know I don’t need to organise my own work around it, but Davies will be designing invitations later today so watch your inboxes 🙂