Took Davies to Tescos today and that was playing in there. He listened to me singing along and then asked how I knew it when he’d never heard it before (the song before had been James Blunt so we’d both been singing along). He has funny points of reference for my life before him which is basically me as a little girl and me getting married. I assume this is because he has seen photographic evidence of both times and we talk about them both a fair bit – the me as a little girl is a frequent one as I imagine it is for all parents and children and he is fascinated with the idea of getting married – his play often has characters getting wed and it basically involves them swapping rings and kissing (he’s also seen our wedding video) but of course that features me and Ady as only a year older than he remembers us so he clearly has no comprehension of me as anything other than a child in his image or the grown up me he knows. Interesting that!
Didn’t do a great deal this morning as I was online loads but they were happily playing with sticklebricks and keeping each other entertained so I felt no guilt 😉 Then Ady arrived home allegedly to work from home which actually involved me writing a report for him and the kids jumping all over him!
That done I took Davies off with me to Tesco while Tarly stayed with Ady and ‘helped’ him tidy up. I quite enjoy having one child to myself, must contrive to make it happen more often really.
Picked up a McDs for them to bring home for tea and have spent the evening finishing off the report. A fairly unexciting day really!
Tomorrow we are at Drusillas with The ScreamTeam which will be lovely as we’ve not seen them for a while, Thursday we are at Ali’s so further blog bumping there and Friday we are planning to go to work with Ady and be dropped off at Lakeside shopping mall. Next week is looking a bit quieter so I am planning to do some more read aloud stuff with them and try and instigate some sort of quiet time period each day – I was thinking of setting them up with colouring while I read or we listen to the radio for half an hour or so just to start the idea off. Today we read The Big Book of Little Children which they both enjoyed and I had planned to read some Dr Seuss to them but Ady arrived home before we got there.
Hope you didn’t get too hot at Drusillas! Give me a ring if you get a moment.
Comment by Jenny — 31 August 2005 @ 3:59 pm