Today was all about work. Boring for the purposes of writing my diary I appreciate, but sadly necessary to make sure I can take tomorrow off and have a day in the sun with my gorgeous kids.
Fortunately the old ball and chain doesn’t ever let me do what I want to do and made sure I was dragged away from the computer and my phone at various points during the day. That way at least I could scrape together a top 5 for your delectation:
1. M’s eating has been a feature of my diary throughout but he has today taken it to a new level. Steph and I have sat tonight to work out what he’s eaten during the course of 12 hours awake. Blueberries, chocolate pancake, banana, satsuma, chocolate pancake (again!), raisins, blueberries (again!), crisp, popcorn, cheese sandwich, ice pop, crisps (again!), and ice cream. By the time we got to tea time he refused to eat anything and just drank some milk before bed. 🐷
2. I took the kids on a walk and today E insisted on taking her toy double pushchair and two babies with us. I warned her she would have to push it the whole way. Boy was everything a drama. She was too cold then she was too hot. Then she was melting and needed a drink. Then we were going too far. Anyway towards the end she decided that singing songs together would help speed us along so off we trotted, side by side, pushing our respective pushchairs belting out Old Macdonald. Imagine my surprise when after the first animal was SHEEP and the second animal a UNICORN, she shouted out that the third animal was a FLYING DUCK. One has to be very careful with one’s pronunciation! 🦆
3. As a result of the huge success of the GroClock (still looking for some commission!) the kids are sleeping in really well. One negative of this, and I think the only negative, is the fact that M’s 3 hour afternoon naps have disappeared and have been replaced with 45 minute power naps. I’m managing to time them perfectly for when we’re due to swap over working shifts so Steph takes over just as he’s waking up. Just don’t tell her that’s deliberate… 😴
4. The bouncy castle continues to go down a storm but with the hot weather the play pool had to come out this afternoon. We were worried after M’s near hypothermia last time that we should try and get some warmer water in today. I was asked to hook the hose onto the kitchen tap. Fail! So Steph then connected it up to the outside tap. Fail! So she started carting out jugs of warm water to fill it up. It took her blooming ages! So she gets M into his swimmers and he steps in it, looks at her, shivers and gets out!! At least E stayed in for a while otherwise there might have been bloodshed! 🥶
5. Tonight we did a bit of zooming for the McLoughlin family weekly quiz. It’s always nice to catch up with the in laws and find out their news (still at home and not much has changed, same as every week!) Tonight was slightly different however as one (anonymous) member of the family was cooking dinner for them and their partner. They were having pasta (nice) but then slipped into the conversation that they were having crisps to start and probably nothing for dessert. Then that suddenly changed and she announced she might have some nuts for afters. Oooooh matron! Bit of an overshare there! 🤭
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