just about held it today!

Must get some sleep though, as shattered by bathtime.

SB not so amenable today, and we had yet another troubled night with BB – 2 feeds in the night after a delayed start ‘cos chris woke us both up when he came to bed!

Again an early start, and this time a bit of bailing out, as we watched half of Shrek with brekkie. Ed value though [citizenship] as we could discuss looks not being the important thing, how you can get wrong end of stick from half heard conversations – who am I trying to kid??? We just enjoyed it snuggled up all together on the sofa,and had a couple of throwaway line discussion!

rang my Mum, so we reboiled the fudge – apparently she often has to reboil it – and this time it has set. i think, joyce, that it prob is much more like tablet than shop fudge as not all squish, but sets hard? [domestic science]. SB particularly happy that she gets to do lickings again! LOL.

We had another prolonged nappy change, and although not baby massage, I’m getting better at trying to integrate SB and BB’s play together – we sang songs and rowed boats, wheels on busses etc. SB does love BB, but usually in a rather overly boisterous spur of the moment shouty way. We also played with her rattles, making up stories to keep SB OK – about 7/10 for success, albeit for about 30 mins only. [sibling issues/ childcare and development [LOL]]

We had veg and noodles for lunch – mine had tofu, SB not so keen. And – def shamed head – watched Shrek 2!!!!!

Hama-ed on and off in the afternoon, actually truthfully involving maths, counting, adding, subtracting. Also patterns, shapes etc. [maths], we also read some of the letterland, and did jolly phonics flashcards [literacy]

Tried to interest SB in playing on her own doing jigsaws so I could have a bit of 1to1 with BB, but totally unsuccesful. Ditto the dressing up the paper flower fairies, dot to dotting.

BB had a long sleep, and during that, we had a long go with the DK world explorer, and finished the first travel adventure thing, and some of the sticker pages. [geography] Although I’m not going to pretend SB has huge insight into this, she was getting the hang of continents, and the repeats – USA and China. Since at the moment, my idea of geography is local [when weather improves and we move, we will ‘map’ our area. We did that here for Leeds and she enjoyed it. I’m taking some photos of local landmarks here- ie the co-op, postoffice etc – so we can perhaps do another map and lapbook it, including friends, nursery, gym etc] But I still think dripfeeding the idea of the world, countries, key sites in them etc in a fun way – with no attempt on my part to add any educational snippets – is setting up foundations. I do try and tie countries in with whether I’ve been there, if we know someone from there, if we plan to visit there etc.

now I’ve got completely lost with so many asides?? oh yes, solicitor rang – guess what…….. Still no exchange, as our vendors still not ready – if I roll eyes much more, they may take on vortex properties and suck brain in from behind [prob not be noticeable though].

Hama-ing again when Chris came home – I think he was impressed by fudge! I then slumped on sofa with BB, while Chris and SB did something secret in kitchen. A its my 36th birthday tomorrow, I am expecting that it may be related [craft!]

Spaghetti arrabiata for tea, and SB surprised me by eating it all without any complaints of its spiciness – cos it was quite chilli-ish.
I then set free my TCS self by agreeing that SB could scamper outside without coat etc on although 6pm and cold – door left open for her to scamper back into. Gave me the giggles, as she was practising being a viking warrior with a spear [bamboo cane!] and also beating imaginary somethings out of the cherry tree with it. She was giggling and talking all the while. jumped around so much that although hands cold, she wasn’t.[PE] However, when she asked me to join her, I switched to my TAS mode, and decided it was too cold!

Bathtime, fruit supper, books and bed for SB. More feeding for BB, and relaxing for me watching how not to decorate. i thought living room still entirely hideous on completion! Also feel that they really are too insulting for my comfort level. Had some fudge – very nice!

Good day tomorrow, as going to a mother blessing – must engage mind for poem. Have bead and sparklies, no knitted square though – it would have been a rhombus anyway!

Thought for the day: cuddling and Shrek is as important to our development as a loving family, as studydog or exeter maths!