Well, all things considered today has been a good day in lockdown. I snuck out early doors and ran 7k before the kiddies woke up and that did really set me up. Another sunny day, fun with the kids and productive from a work perspective. I wouldn’t mind having few more days like this!
I also have a bit of an announcement following a few people suggesting I put my diary entries onto a blog – I’ve looked into it as promised and have now launched lawyerlowdiaries.com – it is a work in progress but please feel free to share the link with anyone!
So, back to my day and from a #HomeSchooling perspective we are onto the letter K. Despite pushing for kangaroo or kinetics, in their wisdom my wife and daughter opted for Kenya. I genuinely have no idea why nor what they intended to do from a schooling perspective but actually they made a good job of it and coloured in the flag (more complex than most countries), learnt lots of facts about the country, did a bit of geography etc. I doff my cap to a genuinely educational day!
Kenya didn’t make my top 5 however so here goes:
1. M has today moved onto a rather strange phase of his development which basically involves trying to kill his parents. I’m not sure what we’ve done to deserve this but he is like a little ninja and has started attacking us when we least expect it. This morning he head butted me from nowhere and I naively put it down as an accident. Then at lunchtime he was sitting nicely on my lap when he seized his chance and flung his head back trying to crush my windpipe. He got pretty close to be fair and I’m sure it’s bruised. Then tonight he climbed over E to get to Steph who leaned in thinking he was being cute. Think again my darling! He went straight in to head butt her in the temple knocking her glasses off in the process. I’m sleeping with one eye open tonight! 🤼♀️
2. E loves a bit of yoga and has been doing some online during lockdown, usually when Steph is supervising. This morning, because I was ready early, I offered to do it with her not quite realising what I was getting myself into! Courtesy of Happy Sleepy Baby we did the Stick Man session. M even joined us and just sat transfixed by the story. E thought it was funny how much I struggled with even the most basic of yoga moves. You might need to zoom into the photo below to see quite how hard I was working my core! 🧘♂️
3. I was speaking to Steph tonight about the Kenya choice and she did explain that she was going to go for Kangaroo but the only learning resource she could find was about joeys. Perfect, I though, so why not do that? Well apparently the worksheet was all about the life cycle of a kangaroo which includes sections stating “the joey climbs the path its mother has licked into its mother’s pouch” and “it latches onto a teat to feed on until it is big and strong”. Steph was concerned that E would think these things applied to her (we don’t want to regress back to the licking stage!) so thought that Kenya was the safer option! 🦘
4. I put E to bed tonight and I’m sure you can picture the scene. I tucked her in and read her a Julia Donaldson story. I switched off the light and kissed her on the head. I said goodnight and then she starts:
“Daddy?”
“Yes sweetie”
“What did you want your life to be when you were 20?”
<wow, I mean how deep is this?>
“Ummm, well I wanted to meet a beautiful girl”
“You did Daddy, you met Mammy”
“Yes and I wanted to have gorgeous children”
“You did Daddy, you had M and me”
“Well, something like that! And I wanted to live in a nice house full of laughter and smiles and happiness”
“Oh. Okay Daddy so when are we buying the nice house?” 😯
5. Today was a very special day in the Low family as it is my little sister’s birthday. Being a social animal the prospect of being stuck indoors on her special day was not very appealing so her very thoughtful big brother organised a surprise Zoom party for her tonight. Cue a very interesting collection of friends and family all with weird and wonderful camera angles and technological issues before we were ready to welcome my sister. So we were ready to go and sing happy birthday but when she was added it turns out she’d gone upstairs to get changed so we just had my brother in law apologising profusely explaining she would be down in a minute. Well, anyone who knows my sister knows that it takes her a while to get ready! I had to mute everyone to try and keep the surprise going which then did confuse some family members who kept trying to unmute themselves! Anyway it all worked well in the end and it was great to see everyone – we decided we should do it again so asked whose was the next birthday without realising my uncle’s is tomorrow! I think the consensus was we might give it a week or so! 🎂
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