some small but nonetheless enjoyable victories in various areas.
Dinner was chicken curry, rice and a nan bread. Davies proclaimed it smelt ‘delicious’ but gagged on the rice (and it was genuine bless him) he did like the chicken and curry sauce but as I had done an efficient job in stirring it in with the rice he was unable to eat it. He did dip his (and Scarlett’s) nan bread in the sauce and eat all that though 🙂 I didn’t start eating rice til I was in my 20s so I am pretty pleased with our continued progress again today.
Scarlett was a different story – she looked at it, dipped the nan bread in the sauce, then chucked it down and proclaimed ‘don’t want it. Don’t want tea, don’t want tea Mummy!’ I simply said ‘OK’ and she continued ‘don’t want tea Mummy, don’t want tea.’ thought for a moment ‘ I want coffee!’ which had me in fits 🙂 Given her tenacious nature, ability to quite comfortably outdo me in determination and how much I would be kicking myself if she appeared at 11pm complaining of being hungry I offered her apples or bananas as an option. She ate three bananas and one apple! Well a diet of fruit and toast is still an improvement on chicken nuggets and smiley faces so I still consider it progress of sorts 🙂
Davies amazed me by counting along with Dora up to 100 tonight. He had wobbles and was not entirely sure of all the tens, but he for the first time grasped two things – one that 70 comes after60 and that is logical cos 7 comes after 6 and that the 1,2,3,4,5 thing goes on inbetween and secondly (and I have to credit starship maths on Class TV for this from this morning) that the tens are said as six-tee, seven-tee etc when the 0 is after them – explaining this all wrong but basically the germ of comprehension for tens and units went in his head today 🙂 He has done some dressing up as a knight and a dragon and he spent ages on his Incredibles Leap pad book tongight doing educational stuff.
We also had a small art session which I will no doubt live to regret when I took a biro off Scarlett and absentmindedly started to doodle on my jeans. They are an old, ripped, wearing round the house pair (knicker exposing, unflattering and very ill fitting – infact the very pair I was wearing yesterday when I met my well groomed friend!) and I just did it without giving any forethought to what a bad bad idea this was to do infront of Tarly 🙂 I went through a phase in my teens of ‘customising’ jeans and T shirts with drawing on them (I fondly recall a plain white T shirt which I drew a stiped waistcoat on in fabric paint and I thought at the time looked very cutting edge 🙂 ). Anyway, Scarlett soon wandered off bored but Davies drew a very good picture of himself on one leg and wrote his name on the other. We covered how we were only doing it cos they were old jeans and I had said it was ok but I do have some fabric paint pens tucked away so I might get some cheapo value T shirts for them both and let them go wild 🙂
Finally became a member of enchanted learning today. I have been meaning to do so ever since I decided to HE but never gotten round to it. I was looking for St Patricks Day stuff and found quite a bit, but as we are going up to London for the day tomorrow I don’t know how much, if any of it we will do. We are seeing Julie and the twins at a new soft play venue over lunchtime which does not leave much time to do a lot – we’ll see. If I am not too knackered tomorrow evening I might do a bit on it in preparation for the afternoon. Also decided to set up a couple of other activity type ideas – one for St Georges, which we have plenty of time to prepare and now have the costumes for – I am thinking of writing a little play about George and the dragon and teaching it to Davies to see how he gets on with the concept of learning a ‘script’ and whether Tarly will join in or not.
Also decided to do something around the Dr Seuss obsession going on here – loads of ideas which I will write down properly when I have the time (which could be next week now!). Not sure who is and isn’t coming to London now – I know Barbara still is and so is Ros so Davies is thrilled about seeing Barbara’s B which will keep him happy at least.
We sometimes mix the rice in with the curry, otherwise she tends to eat all the rice first and miss out on the veg in the curry…… not because she doesn’t like it, but just well, she can I think.
Comment by Chris F — 15 March 2005 @ 11:16 pm
ah, and we’re horrible mean parents who make them eat it all before they’re allowed pudding. So many mealtimes they ask if there is pudding before deciding whether they are actually going to eat their tea or not. Have only recently got them into eating Korma and occasionally Tikka Masala but generally they don’t really like curry, and Anna maintains she hates rice. Always manages to eat it though.
Anyway, lol to your t-shirt/waistcoat. The night I met Steve I wore an appalling t-shirt that actually had half a waistcoat *attached* to it. I can’t actually believe I ever wore it, but my dad had brought it back from some exotic country or other and I thought that therefore not being able to buy it in Top Shop meant that it must be cool. How wrong I was. Only years later did Steve actually admit that he thought I looked completely and utterly weird. And the following day when he popped in on me unannounced I was wearing the ubiquitous yellow shorts (and hadn’t shaved my legs). It’s a wonder things ever went any further than that!
Anyway, have fun in London today, I’m inanely jealous of you being close enough to do it in a day. Look forward to hearing all about it later.
Comment by Sarah — 16 March 2005 @ 7:47 am
Sarah when you come and stay we can pop up to London!
Nic- get the T shirts in the evil Tescos. They are £1.25. You don’t have to use fabric paint, acrylics work brilliantly and are machine washable-without loosing the design!. We all made some the other day to wear to Scooby Doo ( yes even me!). I used to draw on my tights at school, being black you couldn’t see anything but my legs were hilarious underneath LOL.
Comment by Roslyn — 16 March 2005 @ 8:47 am
Ooh, I didn’t know that about acrylics Ros, we’ve got acryclics around here somewhere….thanks!
Comment by jax — 16 March 2005 @ 9:22 am