Tuesday ✅ Not just any Tuesday however. The end of yet another month in lockdown and the end of Steph’s furlough. Tomorrow is going to present a whole new challenge as suddenly we will see the return of shift working and Daddy returning to the classroom. Actually it’s not a whole new challenge at all, and seems vaguely familiar!
As I write this I’ve just realised that no one has left our house today. We are clearly still taking the stay at home message very literally! Being cooped up inside is not good at all however and will need to be remedied tomorrow. Daddy daycare will no doubt include an outing at lunchtime even if it means wellies and jackets!
The kids imagination continues to run wild and E spent much of the day pretending to be a doctor, receiving emergency calls and rushing around with her doctors bag. This actually came in handy when M attacked me this evening and scratched across my forehead. The “doctor” was very concerned about my scar and gave me some medicine to make me better. Bless!
So a few things did happen today and they make the top 5:
1. In amongst the tidy out at the weekend we discovered a sign for E’s bedroom which, rather inventively, says “E’s Room”. I don’t think it was ever in doubt given that it’s purple, covered in My Little Pony and full of dollies and dressing up clothes, but she announced today that she would like the sign put up. She understands where the DIY skills lie in this house and spoke to her Mammy. The job has, however, been passed to Daddy to add his never ending to do list. Interestingly when E spoke to me about the job she explained that I needed to go into the garage and get a jackhammer and a needle. I can only assume she meant a hammer and a nail but I might try to use her suggested tools just for the banter! 🔨
2. We have worked hard to get E back on the #HomeSchooling path and managed to convince her to do some work today on her online apps. I also sat down with her at lunchtime to do some reading and she picked one of her new books. It is called Goat in a Boat. I think I’d quite enjoy writing children’s books – random rhymes and no real storyline seems to be the main criteria. I enjoyed the introduction of a Moat and a Stoat to the story as well as Oats as the Goat’s favourite food. This makes my top 5 however because of my conversation with E this evening. I said to her “We are going to FaceTime Grandma now and you know what she’s going to ask, don’t you?”
“No. What?”
“She will ask if you’ve done schoolwork today and worked hard. So make sure you tell her you’ve been really good and done a lot.”
“You mean lie?” 😳
3. M is picking up new words every day and doesn’t stop making noise from the moment he wakes up (5.15am today) until he finally falls asleep. The whining and crying is not so enjoyable but his chattering is so much fun. I really don’t know where my kids get their love of talking. He has his numbers to 13 and has now added Cake, Food, Sorry, Please, Thank You and Bye Bye. He is incredibly affectionate and loves to give cuddles to everyone he spends any time with. We often find him and Emma cuddling or dancing. His kisses are something else however. The open mouth and copious amounts of dribble makes for quite an unpleasant experience which he might want to work on before he starts dating! 🤤
4. We had a surprise visit today from our nephew W who had hoped to get his hands on Steph’s old iPhone. No one had told us he was cycling over otherwise we could have told him that the kids had hijacked the phone and he could’ve saved his legs. But it was nice to see him as we’ve missed him over the last 15 weeks. A definite highlight for me was when he first arrived and knocked on the living room window. Steph looked over and saw a shaggy haired young man staring in and did not recognise him at all. I mean his hair is shocking (apparently barber appointment booked for Saturday) but I didn’t think he’d changed that much since we last saw him. I was more worried by the copious amount of Lynx he was wearing – distinctive even from 2 metres! I guess we have his girlfriend to thank for that! 💈
5. We finish where we started. E’s bedroom. When she came through to our room this morning she was rabbiting on about nothing. She then suddenly started talking about her bed being wet. What? And so the inquisition started from her mother – what are you talking about? Have you wet the bed? And so on. We finally got an apparent explanation that she needed to take some milk to her bedroom last night to feed her babies and she didn’t think we would let her so she filled up one of her baby toy bottles with water and hid it in her bed. Inevitably it leaked overnight and sure enough we had a soaking wet sheet. I suppose that was a better explanation than the alternative. Any excuse to get her favourite bedsheets back on her bed! 🛌
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