Rush around kind of a day
We abandoned all M’s “activities” this morning. If you can’t be flexible when you’re home edding, what’s the point of home ed? M didn’t get up til gone 8am and it took us ages to get breakfasted and dressed. We’d planned to open bank accounts this morning so we went into town in the rain and queued for ages in the Halifax. I didn’t realise opening a bank account was quite so involved, but I’m sure it was very educational LOL. After spending an hour in the bank we rushed round getting the other bits of shopping (mainly for M’s birthday cake decorations), because I needed to take L for his 8 week check at 1.30pm. I just made it on time, after bolting down some lunch in the coffee shop and leaving A & M there to chat while we were at the doctors.
Back home M continued drawing a detailed robot picture using some new watercolour pencils he got as a birthday gift. They are lovely and he spent ages drawing with them and blending the colours with a brush. He doesn’t choose to draw that often, but really enjoyed it today.
Then it was out again to M’s Musical Theatre class. Caught up with the other mums and grans there and showed L off. He kept everyone entertained in the waiting room for the 45 mins class, burbling and grinning at everyone. They appear to still be learning Zip a dee doo dah, which does my head in, but never mind. Why they can’t learn songs from musicals other than Disney I don’t know. Back in February they began learning Little People from Les Mis which is great. (Les Mis is my favourite musical, though trying to explain the story to M is very taxing). M learnt all the words the first week they had it, but some of the parents weren’t keen and said it was too hard (and they were shocked one of the words is “damn”). I suppose it’s not a well known tune and has alot of high notes and verses to learn, but at least it’s interesting. They ended up doing Bare Necessities for the Musical Theatre exam, which was wearing after a couple of repetitions.
After pizza for tea, A disappeared off out to watch a friend in a play locally, and I eventually got M off to bed and tried to keep L happy (tired and crotchety but not falling asleep). When A got back we worked on stuff for M’s birthday - still quite a bit to do tomorrow though.
just had a lovely long read of your blog, knew there was a reason for me waking up at 4am!! Sounds like you’re adjusting to life with 2 quite well, we need some proper pics of L though! Oh and welldone on the EC, I tried and was useless at it with Alex!
Comment by Kirsty — September 10, 2005 @ 3:16 am
Oooooh - very exciting (says the woman who still has an “Its a boy” card sat here for you *rolls eyes*)
And as for “didn’t get dressed till gone 8am - giggle - its a good day here if we are done by 10am!
Comment by Merry — September 10, 2005 @ 4:36 am
Ah Merry, I only said “up” at gone 8am (he usually wakes between 6.30 and 7ish) I didn’t admit to what time we were all actually dressed etc!
Kirsty, that must have been hard with Marcus still so young!! Shall get on to the photos for you.
Comment by Administrator — September 10, 2005 @ 8:43 am
Shocked by *damn*???? Ah, but is this the class in awfully awfully H? (wasn’t sure if it was ok to mention locations, presume you’ll be able to work out where I mean though lol!)
Comment by Tech — September 10, 2005 @ 1:49 pm
Hi. Glad you’ve got a blog at last
Really interested to read about the EC. It’s something I thought about, but decided I’m probably not AP enough to always pick up on the signals. Jasper loves kicking nappy-free though. Do you keep L in a nappy most of the time and take it off when you think he needs to go, or is he just in a nappy when you’re out?
Comment by Jan — September 10, 2005 @ 10:00 pm
I don’t always pick up on the signals by any means! We miss loads, but it helps to sort out the wriggling quickly when I can tell he needs to go (all that latching on and off M used to do and general fussing and probably it was just he needed a wee!), and poos are easier to clean up. He always wears a nappy as back up, I’m not brave at all about nappy free time! A muslin with no cover is as brave as it gets here. It’s really cool when you realise you’ve communicated about needing a wee though and even A is taking him sometimes.
Comment by Administrator — September 11, 2005 @ 9:07 am
Hope you had a lovely day. B’card was sent, but I suspect we missed the post on Friday, as the box sounded awfully empty when we dropped it in.
Comment by Joyce — September 11, 2005 @ 6:59 pm
Sorry for all the questions. I’d email you, but I suspect I’m not the only curious one, and I’m half serious about wanting to try ec with j…
What do you do at night? Do you have to get up when L gets fidgety?
And does he have easy-off clothes and nappies? I’m worried it would take me too long to get into the clothes, undo the wrap, the nappi-nippa etc, and it would be too late. Because I do know when j’s going to poo, but I’m not quick enough to do anything about it.
Comment by Jan — September 11, 2005 @ 8:00 pm