After getting over the hump yesterday we are heading downhill at great speed. Often, getting to the weekend quickly is a good thing but things are getting ever so slightly strained in the Low household. Despite everyone appearing to sleep well, the lockdown exhaustion is definitely kicking in. Either that or last night’s furry chicken is causing some strange side effects!!
I wore a suit today for the first time in over 3 months. That is by far the longest I’ve gone without my usual work attire for almost 14 years and it was very odd. But at least it’s been broken back in ready for my forthcoming court hearings – I’m relieved I made bail in the meantime just to help out with the childcare.
Not an easy top 5 today but here we go:
1. Now with my limited experience of running it definitely involves getting motivated to go out especially if it’s an early morning run. Imagine my surprise therefore when Steph rolled out of bed and suddenly announced she was going for her next run with E. Off they went to pound the wet paths and yet again made me feel like the couch potato of the house. I’m going to have to do something about that but in the meantime us boys are just going to chill. Apparently during today’s run E invented a new game. It involves her acting out something but you can’t speak during it whilst the other person has to guess (clearly a completely new concept that’s never been thought of before!) 🏃♀️
2. Today we realised that E has actually finished all of her workbooks and worksheets from school except for her RE folder. Clearly we have been prioritising wrongly! She cracked on with her online learning however and started her latest country project for our window display – South Africa. This was all about animals and at one strange point she crept up on me making a strange wailing noise and holding up her picture of an elephant in front of her face. Fortunately I quickly realised she was trumpeting and not in pain. It’s one of those parenting skills I’m still developing as identifying what she has drawn in her pictures is a huge challenge and she’s very offended if I can’t work it out. 🇿🇦
3. Steph received a call today from the health visitor to carry out M’s two year check. As with most things, this needed to be done remotely but he’s still doing really well with the only slight black mark being his speech. I personally found this surprising given how chatty he is but apparently he should be forming three word phrases. Steph tried to reassure the health visitor that it wasn’t a cause for concern as he can definitely say “Let It Go” but this wasn’t enough. I’m tempted to get her to come and live here for a couple of days and see if she wants him to talk more!!! 🙉
4. M has continued with his lifelong mission to seek out trouble, and if he can’t find any, to create his own. His favourite toy today, for no apparent reason, was a beautiful crown on a headband which he kept putting on his own head and then on top of everyone else’s, whilst finding it completely hysterical. You don’t really know how it feels until you have been crowned by your son live on a Zoom Partners Meeting! The biggest problem I find is that he has already mastered his ‘butter wouldn’t melt’ facial expressions making it incredibly difficult to tell him off. I do already feel sorry for his nursery teachers as they won’t know what they are dealing with until he gets dropped off on his first day! 🤴
5. I’m doing this as my last one for a very specific reason. I should know better than to make confessions in a public forum but needs must. Daddy was summoned to the spare room/ playroom this afternoon by E as there was a humongous spider sitting in the middle of the room. Steph was there too but is definitely not a spider fan and was quite happy for someone else to deal with the situation. In fact when it was first spotted, E led Steph from the room telling her to “be brave Mammy”. Daddy was sent in but sadly he missed the spider and it has escaped and hidden somewhere unreachable. I had to tell a small white lie that I had caught it to make sure they would go back in the room – I’m going to be in so much trouble when my diary is read! 🕷
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