One word? When seven would do…

just say the word and we’ll race the birds to Acapulco Bay, yes it’s perfect for a flying honeymoon they say, so come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away (need a musical note smiley, something like :semiquaver:)

Another rough night with Scarlett last night although I think it was more habit than anything actually wrong. We had such a long period of time with her being the amazing non-sleeping toddler that although she is now a pretty good sleeper when she goes off track for any reason it can take a while to get back to normal. And of course her being downstairs doesn’t help because she tends to wake, sit up in bed and just holler rather than coming to find us 🙄 At 6am I got up, told her that while yes, it was indeed morning time now which was what she was yelling there was noone else about to be getting up anytime soon as we’d all had way too little sleep so far and that if she wanted to sit and watch Nick jr she was very welcome but she could sit on her own and do so. Which she took quite agreeably, settled down on the sofa, waited until about two minutes after I’d snuggled back into bed and then started howling for Ady. She ended up in our room wailing for ages before snuggling down next to me and going to sleep. Which woke Davies. Who had a fit about noone being up for getting up with him either and stomped back to bed himself. He then woke hysterical about half an hour later as he’d poked himself in the eye and it hurt. Ady eventually got up with him while I went back to sleep again. They both want Ady in the mornings anyway – this is solely because I think they are old enough to be entertaining themselves now if they want to get up hours earlier than the rest of us, they can operate the tv and dvd player, access all their toys, reach things in the kitchen and so I let them get on with it whereas Ady is normally up with them anyway getting ready to go to work so if he’s in the house they expect it of him whether he needs to actually be up that day or not. A work in progress definitely :).

Davies had indeed done *something* to his eye, it was all bruised round the upper and lower eyelid and watering and weeping a fair bit. The actual eye itself looks fine and he insists it is because he poked himself in his sleep so I don’t suspect an eye infection. I did get him some eye drops but he squealed like I’d poured acid into his eye when I tried to put them in so we didn’t try that again. He did lots of walking round with dampened cotton wool pads looking mournful and occassional bouts of crying and whimpering but it did seem to coincide with Scarlett acting up too so I am slightly dubious at just how painful it is, although it certainly looks quite sore.

My Dad appeared in the morning for an hour or so as he has done the last couple of Sundays, it’s quite nice, I wish he’d come over more. Scarlett had a long bath and hair wash as she was quite stinky from sweating the last couple of days with her fever and I changed her bed, we did loads and loads of washing and we put all the eggs in the incubator. One was cracked so we start with 18 potential little chicks. They need to be ‘candled’one third of the way into incubation according to the manual with the incubator so we will have a look at them next weekend if not before, then we hand them over to Dad to do daily turning of the eggs along with his cat and fish feeding duties while we are at NicCamps, with us coming back for the final week of the 21 days incubation. Excited at the prospect of little chicks, slightly daunted at the idea of breeding some sort of mutants or having no hatchlings at all. Will post further ‘hatchwatch’ updates as they happen :).

I got Tarly and Davies some seeds last week – Davies got a Wallace and Gromit pot and cress seeds and Tarly got a butterfly garden which is a mini greenhouse with 3 different butterfly attracting flower seeds. Tarly and I did hers earlier this week but today we were watering it and Davies and I sowed the cress seeds in his, so we’ve done lots of starting new life type stuff here today. 🙂

Davies did some more playing with his IQ science toy (it’s similar to this one) including dismantling and rebuilding it. It’s funny how children go from having no interest in something like that to loving it almost overnight. I was expecting loads of play with the gears gears gears! stuff but it didn’t really happen, this has been a huge success. I almost wonder if it’s because it isn’t brightly coloured and ‘kiddified’ – Davies has always seemed suspcisious of stuff that is supposed to be played with and gone for the less obvious choices as toys 😆 ( and yeah I am thinking ash and paintbrushes here 😉 ). Bring on the science I guess.

Ady went out to mow the lawn and the children followed for a play in the garden. I had intentions of hiding inside with my laptop and making the most of a brief hour window without a child on my lap – a real rarity this week. But Davies rang the doorbell and invited me out to play his canabalised game of tennis / badminton he’d set up in the garden, stringing a length of net across between two bushes and finding a table tennis bat and a badminton racquet to bash a ball pool ball over. We messed about with that for a while until Ady came along and he and I had a go. Most of the balls ended up in the road though with all four of us helpless with laughter. 😆

We had roast beef while watching Eight Below which I’d got from work but neither of the children were particularly bothered to be watching. It was quite a long film and they both drifted away at various points once they’d finished eating, but they both came back for the ending and we sat snuggled up together watching with me sniffling through the end as they both clarified precisely what had happened several times. We walked round the shop to get ice creams for pudding (wearing no coats – yay!) and then came back to watch the making of dvd extra of the film.

Finally we put on Morph and I got the plasticine out and made a Morph for Davies and a Delilah for Tarly, then they made some bits. Davies made an Ady dressed in Wallace’s clothing and Tarly made a me in the style of a Morph character. Davies then made a dinosaur and a mini Morph while Tarly and I collaborated on a blue cat with pink whiskers. Davies then put on a play for us all to watch with his creations before we packed them off to bed.

My nose has been streaming all day coupled with regular sneezing fits and I am hoping it is merely early hayfever caused by lawn mowing happening all around me rather than yet another phase in The Goddard’s Plague Of Illnesses or indeed an allergic reaction to all the flowers we picked from the garden and brought in the house. Anyway, weird assorted ailments aside it’s been a mostly nice day with Spring well and truly on it’s way. 🙂