Tired Tuesday

I spent some more time catching up online today – finally up to date with blogging and flickring :). I also booked my car in for an MOT (it ran out last week, oops), caught up on some emails I needed to send and had a long phone chat catch up with Julie.

Also processed more laundry, did an inventory on the freezers, started knitting a scarf for my Mum for Christmas, made a start on my Christmas shopping by ordering Fox and child dvd from amazon for Tarly and did some thinking about other Christmas gifts for various people.

Davies and Scarlett played really nicely together all day. In the morning Davies created a ‘WALL E playset’ which comprised of a small box he’s made into a WALL E, an old deodrant bottle he has made into Eve and a dismantled box for scenery. An old plastic bit from my disposable contact lens packaging is WALL E’s pet cockroach. It all folds away into a plastic case he had, micro machine stylee. Really must get some photos of it, it’s ace :).

They played with the geomags (more WALL E makings) and the toy animals, spent some time on their DSs and generally just enjoyed being together. 🙂 Davies also got out an IQ Science kit we’ve had for ages to build your own motorised cars and decided to ‘invent a car for the future’. He did some drawings and then used all the components to build it. It included various design features which I’m sure will be of great use in the future and it will run on electricity. It was all a bit like Tomorrows World round here for a bit 😆

After lunch they got changed into the swimming stuff and I gathered up various things which needed to go up to the allotment (the kitchen waste bucket, some chicken bedding etc.)and we went to swimming via the allotment. I’d already decided I wasn’t swimming together, partially because I just wasn’t in the mood but mostly because I’ve not watched their lessons for a while and it was the last one before Christmas so I wanted to see their progress.

Davies went in the big pool on his own and once again got called over to the side by a lifeguard (it’s about the 3rd time it’s happened now) – I know he is small and I know he doesn’t look like he’s a very strong swimmer but he is now well over 8 which is their rule of age for children to be there unaccompanied – also if I didn’t feel comfortable with him in there on his own he wouldn’t be regardless of his age. He did about six lengths and did some work on his handstands :).

Scarlett had a good lesson – she can now swim a width on her front or back and is developing a nice style. The letters were given out for next term and she is staying in the non swimmers class which I wouldn’t necessarily agree with but as I think their progress this term is quite a lot down to the half an hour extra each in the pool alongside their lessons each week I guess it will push me to carry on getting in the pool with them most weeks and have some one to one time with them both if they have seperate lessons times.

Davies also had a good lesson – he’s really come on this term too. There were forms to go and buy badges each for them at £2 each but I still really resent that so I’ve not said anything about that yet. I get so mad about paying out £60 or so each for a term of lessons and then being expected to cough up seperately for badges.

We came home, I put away the giddy chickens who are being stupid about getting in their house at night, the kids had a shower to remove chlorine from themselves and then dinner. Ady came home and he read Scarlett a Magic Kitten book which I want to take back to the library while I read Davies ‘Dear Mum, I miss you’ which was very good and almost made me cry.

Dinner, more Survivors and as we’ve a proper out and about busy day ahead of us tomorrow I’m off to bed.