he’s been reading a while anyway 😉 Just as well I don’t often say anything negative about him eh?!
An OK day today – after the 2 hour middle of the night getting Scarlett to sleep / monoblogue I slept in ’til nearly 10am and was woken with tea and bacon butties 🙂
We debated what to do today for a bit and ended up going into Worthing town centre. The plan was for a walk along the prom, along the pier, early tea at McDs for the kids and maybe a wander round the shops. The walk along the beach bit was fine – Davies walked along with Ady and Scarlett and I lagged behind a bit. She is fascinated with stones anyway so the concept of the pebble beach at Worthing had her in raptures. I was laughing my head off by the time we caught up with Ady and Davies as she walked along a beach made entirely of stones, then every few steps stopped, gasped, bent down and selected a stone with careful and considered precision, proclaimed ‘wow stone, look Mummy’ showed me, then walked a few more steps before dropping that one and begining again 🙂
Davies was behaving badly again today and finally lost his McDonalds by jumping in a puddle despite having been told not to. He is really playing up at the moment which is somehow harder to deal with in such a previously easy and well behaved child 🙁 It seemed like he didn’t really care but Mum and Dad arrived just after he went to bed and when they went up to say goodnight he told Dad that he had lost his McDonalds because he had been naughty so perhaps it did sink in….
We went in and out a few shops after deciding the pier was way too cold and blowy to do more than walk up one side and down the other stopping to peer at the sea below through the cracks. The kids were both playing up by not walking nicely alongside us, ‘I want’ – ing at everything in every shop so after about an hour we called time on the whole exercise and went home to eat chocolate cake and watch Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I made some playdough which they played with infront of the TV and that kept them occupied for the afternoon in a peaceful and calm manner 🙂 We listened to Mozart again in the car which they both la-ed along to which was nice. Ady and I managed to have some chatting time while they were playing and I presented him with my blog on my laptop only to be told he had been reading for a while actually 🙂 And he had read all the comments from yesterdays posts on email before I got up this morning 😀
Davies made some Zoombinis using his playdough and the ELC crazy creatures – I do have photos which I will blog tomorrow, but they were very accurate and impressive, and he then spent ages recreating some of the Zoombini challenged including the allergic cliffs which he hates on the computer but rigged so he got across them in his recreation game 🙂 Funny how much you think goes right over their heads only to realise later how much it actually sank in.
We did one and a half lessons from 100el tonight and considering it is a good three weeks since we did any he did very well.
Mum and Dad arrived while I was in the bath and only stayed for an hour or so – both very excited about their trip which will do them the world of good on many levels. Mum was hilarious talking about them travelling business class – they did that on both their previous trips so it is nothing new, and unlikely to impress either me or Ady but she does like to ensure everyone knows about it 🙂
And that was probably about it for today really – a better one than yesterday. I booked a static for MP Kessingland camp which I am equally excited and nervous about – me and Ady are not so good at being apart so although we have a test run at HESFes I am still a bit twitchy about the idea of deliberately booking nights away from each other.
Jonathan had a day out with C to Brighton shortly before we moved back to Yorkshire that she spent largely picking up stones, playing with them and generally enjoying them. We have some lovely photos somewhere.
Comment by Jan — 13 March 2005 @ 11:23 pm
well hello Ady!
Comment by helen and chris F — 14 March 2005 @ 12:35 am
Hi Nic- know what you mean about the challenge of an erstwhile well behaved child being a scamp- there have been plenty of times where my mantra with Poppy has been “it’s just a phase, it’s just a phase”…
I’ve booked for HESFES and Kessingland without Sim also, not ideal but must confess I quite enjoy time apart as it makes it lurvely when we get back together!!
Comment by heather — 14 March 2005 @ 10:20 am
I always do the camps alone, and so long as there are other women by themselves (or indeed in the man in question is Chris ;-)), then it feels fine. The problem for me is that if EVERYONE is there with a partner, you end up feeling like the proverbial spare part at a wedding, as everyone else is having a more family type holiday. That was a bit of a problem for me at MP camp last year, (though Kath and Andrew were very inclusive!), and I did end up feeling a bit lonely. But I think there are lots more people this year who are planning to be by themselves.
Comment by Joyce — 14 March 2005 @ 11:20 am