Those would be my good intentions about updating this thing every day which I can hear flying past the window on the back of something pink and porcine, wouldn’t they?
Here’s what I can remember since the last update:
Thursday had HENCAST in the morning, with a scrapbooking workshop that B loved. I didn’t stick around as I had no particular desire to spend an hour and a half chasing K around the Scout Hall, but B had lots of fun working with Caitlin to scrapbook some of her Darwin photos. In the afternoon, apparently, B and K got arty and did some collage. B cut a chain of ballerinas out of paper and decorated them, as well as making a fish. In the evening E took B to watch the third Spiderman movie and I had a mini breakdown having to look after K, probably because I was already coming down with The Lurgy but didn’t realise it at the time.
Friday, I was horribly lurgified and basically flopped about while B entertained K most of the day. She read a couple of books to her while we were upstairs, including Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?, complete with the now-obligatory caveat about some species having evolved to make an investment in parental care, but most do not. They also looked at the book on birth together, and B gave K a concise and pretty accurate description of the process of implantation and growth of the embryo and placenta. That’s my girl *g* They spent a lot of time in the garden because B decided to replant lots of pots and make a garden underneath the cubbyhouse. They found a leopard slug, and had an impromptu biology lesson. E came home and took them out to the Mall for dinner and secret pre-Mother’s Day activities (which the munchkins then proceeded to tell me about as soon as they got home).
Saturday, more lurgification while E took K and B to May Crown Tourney. B met up with Caitlin and they had lots of fun racing about. Sunday was mostly more of the same until after lunch, then she and K pootled about while E and I cleaned the living room and play room.
Monday had pottery 10:30-12:00, and before that the girls played together in their newly -excavated playroom. I did some more excavation, and some of the vacuuming. In the afternoon we played the geography Twister game, and I tried to stop K beating up B. I believe there was more gardening at some point. B is becoming more actively helpful when asked to do things like clear the table for dinner, although she has decided to adopt E’s technique of transferring all the crap frm the table to the floor without making any attempt at putting anything where it belongs.
This morning (Tuesday), B has already walked up to the shops and back for milk, coping with the bag disintegrating on the way back while she was trying to wrestle a dog and a scooter as well, and having forgotten her phone so she couldn’t call me to come pick her up. Naturally there was a bit of disintegration when she got home, as she let out all the stress. She has been blowing bubbles for K, and then they both went outside to have more fun with that. There was a girl next door who said she was temporarily puppy-sitting a 6-week old puppy for her brother (no idea if her brother is the owner or if she is now living next door or what), and of course B and K had to stare over the fence long enough to induce the puppy-sitter to come over and let them pet it.
B eventually yielded to my persuasion to sit down and do some writing, while K nursed her cold in front of Play School repeats. I told B I was giving her a writing prompt so she didn’t have to sit in front of a blank piece of paper, but she decided she wanted to work on her story, The Knights of the Round Saucepan, instead. We sat down with an exercise book and I prompted her to think of the plot while I made notes for her. Then she started writing the first chapter, after a discussion about different ways of employing a narrator and how she wanted to go about it. She made it most of the way down one page then called it quits for the day. So long as she does a bit of work on it every day or so, I think that will suffice as her written work. After doing that, she got ready to go out with Nannie, and is probably now still at the pool. Mum will be dropping her off at about 1:30 tomorrow afternoon while she goes to a specialist’s appointment, but will pick her up later on and take her out to horseriding.
K is quite highly strung at the moment, presumably from her cold, and kept having meltdowns over every tiny thing which went wrong. After B left, we played for a little while in the play kitchen (baked green mangos, yum), til she eventually admitted that she was knackered and would like a nap now please Mum. She’s been asleep for about 45 minutes now (3pm).