Fell asleep on the sofa again last night so didn’t blog. 😳
Nice day yesterday, I got up with D&S and we made fathers day cards for Ady. Very mad trying to get them to write at the same time as D knows letters and can do a lot of the spelling himself whereas S only knows a few letters and so I have to write some of them down on a seperate sheet of paper for her, so trying to combine agreeing that yes ‘A’ should come next after ‘H’ and why there is a double P in happy with Davies at the same time as showing Scarlett what L looks like and agreeing that yes there is one of those in her name pushes even the most talented multi-tasker to her limits ;). We had a hurried breakfast, Ady got given his cards, chocolates and dvd and then we were off to swimming.
Ady and Scarlett went for a walk along the beach while I sat and watched Davies. He is probably the most behind in the group now, but at the same time as not progressing at the rate of the rest of the class he is clearly progressing within himself, and most of all really enjoying it so that’s good. Yesterday he really mastered going right under the water and the look on his face when he realised not only could he do it but he actually enjoyed it was lovely to witness (and impressive to me as I still hate going under water :oops:). He does have more than a bit of a Frank Spencer element to him when he’s trying to do something sporty though and he was quite comical trying to hold a float in both arm and get his legs up to kick. He was getting them up and kicking but going nowhere with lots of splasing – just like when we was learning to crawl on the floor actually and mastered moving backwards way before he started going forwards – he was also late to walk, I wonder if that follows through in all phyiscal things somehow? He kept losing one float, then letting go of the other one to go after the first one, grabbing it and turning round to find the second one had floated off, so he let go of the first one to go after that one and so on. Meanwhile the rest of the class carried on around him while he was still in the middle of the pool doing his comedy float routine. 😆 I think the lessons are a good thing and will definitely carry on with them, but I’m hoping he makes some leaps and bounds of progress next week at Kessingland with lots of swimming and lots of attention one to one on him.
We left there and the torrential rain that had been falling since the early hours of the morning had finally stopped so we headed off to the local car boot sale. It was pretty quiet – both buyers and sellers but we got a few bargains including HP3 on video, a HP broomstick for 20p and a HP figure for a quid. Scarlett got a load of plastic cats and dogs for 20p and I got a body art kit with a load of tattoo pens for 40p which will supplement the henna I’ve got and having been practising on myself have realised will actually only be suitable for the older children anyway given how long it needs to dry.
We popped home to put the chicks out for the day and collect my Dad’s Fathers Day present and then back to my parents for the afternoon. We had lunch, my Granny came for a couple of hours, my Mum cut a load more off my hair as I’d decided it wasn’t short enough (it’s definitely short now 🙂 ) and the children played while Dad and Ady watched cricket. Frazer came home from work just after 5pm so we stayed another hour or so to catch up with him before Scarlett started to fade fast (she’s now also got the cold) so we came home for an early night for them.
Dad and I made some plans for a chicken house which hopefully we’ll get sorted this week sometime but he’s pricing up wood as he reckons recycled pallets (the only wood within our budget 😉 ) are too much hassle, so hopefully he’s got that sorted this morning. I’m off to work this afternoon (another training session at Worthing library) and I’m dropping D&S off at Dad’s on the way. I’ve promised to do some baking with S so I need to get off and do that now as we’re leaving here in an hour, so we better bake something suitable for lunch.