A pretty good day today, following another awful night.
All days should start with LI, it puts one in such a good frame of mind 🙂
Anyway.
Funniest moment of the day had to be the four of us playing pass the parcel using a packet of tissues stuffed with ‘prizes’ from the pretend play food while Davies did the music by ‘singing’ tunelessly! Apparantly it was invisible man’s birthday party 🙂
Oh My God moment of the day was Davies calling me into the room shouting ‘Mummy, Mummy, Tarly has chickenpops (sic) she is itching her leg’ she does have a couple of spots on her leg but it could well be some sort of rash so we’ll reserve judgement there until the morning.
Ah bless moment of the day was sitting in the bath tonight listening to Davies in bed playing with his mircrophone leappad book repeating prices for fruit and vegetables – he has this funny precise little voice with a really posh accent which he saves for moments like that and he sounds like a right little aristocrat saying ‘one pound thirty five’ in his cut glass plum in mouth voice 🙂
Arghhhhh moment of the day was Davies interupting me and Dad talking every two minutes thirty three seconds. It is without a doubt his most IRRITATING habit – and he doesn’t even actually have anything to say, just doesn’t like not being the centre of attention.
But on the whole a pretty good day. I managed to change Scarlett’s bed so that just leaves Davies’ to do tomorrow, I have cleared all the Melrose washing and am down to one basket left to do from this week, I have put away the towering pile of clean washing and sent the emails needed to cancel next weekend’s trip up north as by my calculations next weekend is the end of our pox quarantine and I don’t want to be 250 miles and a 6 hour drive from home when one or both of them go down with it and feel dreadful. A real shame as I was really looking forward to it but hopefully we can rearrange it for a couple of weeks time.
Dad arrived mid morning during all this industrious housewifely business so he and I sat most of the day talking and playing with the kids. The playdough came out again and I had phonecalls with Jenny and Karen which was nice – feel like the blogring is suddenly much smaller again 🙂 now I *know* people IRL. Dad left and Ady arrived home just as Davies finished building a shop with all the pretend play food and the ELC cash register and play money. Scarlett has been playing with her dolls and baby bath lots so loads more creative play going on again.
I had forgotten how much I missed having Dad call round when we lived in Manchester. When he is not being opinionated or teasing the kids he is lovely to have around and I think both of us have his age in the back of our minds and want to grab as much time as we can. He sits for hours talking about his life, when he was a child and his parents and grandparents – interesting for me and probably quite nice for him to reminise too. I love the fact that the kids are so comfortable with him now – far more so than they are with Mum and it’s lovely to see him developing relationships with them each individually instead of as ‘the grandchildren’.
Davies has been playing with LP again in bed, working his way through Toy Story 2 and what will you be TS2 in particular has a really good phonics bit and he played with that for ages really reinforcing the EL stuff, which is all good.
Tomorrow we have not a lot planned – Ady wants to clear some of the general rubbish from the garden and take it to the tip, I have an opticians appointment in the afternoon and Mum and Dad are coming over for dinner. On Sunday we are seeing Chris and Julie (they decided to risk it!) but we are both so tired I am looking forward to a fairly quiet and low key weekend.
That trip to the tip, any chance Ady could influence Tony???
Goodluck with the chicken pox. x
Comment by leandra — 18 February 2005 @ 9:46 pm
Tip trips would be too much here we are in dire need of yet another skip for our garden – I think it will the fourth or fifth since we moved here – I don’t know where the garden sprouts all this rubbish LOL. Did you find out the name of that art book Nic?
Comment by Karen b — 18 February 2005 @ 11:04 pm
It’s on Merry’s blog I think Karen.
Comment by Chris F — 19 February 2005 @ 12:47 am
I’m so glad that your LI set you up for the day. presumably Ady is similarly emboldened? I do envy you having your parents close by. I don’t want mine on the door step, but it would be lovely to be able to do that casual thing – it’s always an expedition for us, and then you end up having expectations of it, and get hacked off when (inevitably), it doesn’t come up to expectation. Also, I sometimes selfishly just long for someone to give me a break for a couple of hours, so I can do exciting things like go to the well woman clinic without having Hannah lurking outside.
Comment by Joyce — 19 February 2005 @ 4:31 pm
Hmm, it is lovely to have them nearby but they are not the sort of help I imagined or hoped they would be. Certainly any babysitting has to be negotiated with my mum well in advance and really justified too, a simple ‘I would love a couple of hours to myself’ would never ever ever prompt her to just have the kids for a while. I think I want Alison’s mum actually!
Comment by Nic — 20 February 2005 @ 11:01 am
well, my mum is only 3 miles away and we don’t get babysitting done, but then again, we haven’t requested it very often, which could be part of the problem. Ever get the feeling you just can’t win?
Comment by jax — 20 February 2005 @ 12:55 pm
lol, yeah, my mum demands regular access to her grandchildren 🙂 Actually, she’s always been like it, e.g. would take friends’ children on days out, just for the pleasure of their company. Before she drove, she was also renowned for nabbing a random child to take on train journeys to get the Family Railcard discount, lol. Taking a preschooler on a day trip to York wouldn’t be most people’s idea of a pleasant trip, I guess 😉
Comment by Alison — 20 February 2005 @ 1:06 pm
Moving away from my mum (used to be half an hour away) was the *only* thing I missed when we went north. But I’m still waiting for my sister to move out and for her to retire so she can be a ‘proper’ granny, lol. She still works too damn hard for other people. My ultimate goal is to entice my parents up here *before* the roles are reversed and we are looking after them 😉
Comment by Barbara — 20 February 2005 @ 9:53 pm