The revelation of Joshua
Joshua was blessed with further revelation on his road to maturity yesterday: "Poos come out this side; wees come out this side". This explains why, when it comes to wiping, he frequently addressed the wrong 'side'! Its remarkable the amount of stuff you take for granted as an adult, which you've actually had to learn along the way.
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Yesterday was a fairly nice day - from my point of view anyway. Saturday is almost always a great joy to me, and a huge disappiontment to Libby. Principally this is because I'm not working (so the day is good by definition), but for Libby, who still expects Saturday to be totally different, nothing much is.
However, yesterday was quite a good 'achievement' day. Libby:
- took the 'big' children to the tip (for them, that was considerably more exciting than it might sound) and managed to bring them back;
- steam cleaned most of the carpets in the house (and the dining chairs);
- did most of the decorating of Bethany's side of the bedroom - this follows the same template as Joshua's side, but in a considerably more girlie-stylee. [Its amazing how it can take us 6 months to get round to tackling these things - and then take about two hours to actually do it. I think its another distinguishing feature of 'baby time'.].
I:
- took Caleb up the road and procured our white wristbands from Oxfam;
- unearthed Libby's bike from the shed, and 'spruced it up'. Not quite as onerous a task as it may sound. It was in fairly good nick, considering how long its been in there;
- played with Joshua's electric trains. (These are really old and give to us a while ago by a family whose boys had grown out of them. Unfortunately Joshua has not really grown into them yet, but is nevertheless very keen. This means a major amount of supervision (and discipline) is required to 'have fun' with them. The picture on his face when he gets the power to make them start and stop makes it pretty much worth it though. I think 'glee' is the word);
- finally got round to nailing down the slats in our bed. Had become a bit fed up of my ankles bouncing around on the floor, and falling right through when sitting down to put on my socks.
[from the length of those descriptions you'd think I'd done more - but I just span my bit out more!]
By the way, the 'sprucing up of the bike' has come about because our beloved council, in its wisdom, has decided to close one of my main alternative routes to work for 12 weeks. This means that everyone going in my direction will now have to go my way. So (wait for it) I've decided to try cycling! I expect I will do it once, and then not be able to move for a week. But, as Libby points out, that's even more reason to do it!
We will keep you posted...
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As an aside, its really nice now that Caleb has got a bit more robust and more able to interact. This means that Bethany gets to play with a 'real baby' - which keeps 2/3 of our children quiet at a stroke. Turn the TV on, and...hey presto...a blog!
However, as she is now rather vigorously 'washing his hair', I think its time to intervene. Anyway, its almost my turn for the bathroom.
Adios...
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Yesterday was a fairly nice day - from my point of view anyway. Saturday is almost always a great joy to me, and a huge disappiontment to Libby. Principally this is because I'm not working (so the day is good by definition), but for Libby, who still expects Saturday to be totally different, nothing much is.
However, yesterday was quite a good 'achievement' day. Libby:
- took the 'big' children to the tip (for them, that was considerably more exciting than it might sound) and managed to bring them back;
- steam cleaned most of the carpets in the house (and the dining chairs);
- did most of the decorating of Bethany's side of the bedroom - this follows the same template as Joshua's side, but in a considerably more girlie-stylee. [Its amazing how it can take us 6 months to get round to tackling these things - and then take about two hours to actually do it. I think its another distinguishing feature of 'baby time'.].
I:
- took Caleb up the road and procured our white wristbands from Oxfam;
- unearthed Libby's bike from the shed, and 'spruced it up'. Not quite as onerous a task as it may sound. It was in fairly good nick, considering how long its been in there;
- played with Joshua's electric trains. (These are really old and give to us a while ago by a family whose boys had grown out of them. Unfortunately Joshua has not really grown into them yet, but is nevertheless very keen. This means a major amount of supervision (and discipline) is required to 'have fun' with them. The picture on his face when he gets the power to make them start and stop makes it pretty much worth it though. I think 'glee' is the word);
- finally got round to nailing down the slats in our bed. Had become a bit fed up of my ankles bouncing around on the floor, and falling right through when sitting down to put on my socks.
[from the length of those descriptions you'd think I'd done more - but I just span my bit out more!]
By the way, the 'sprucing up of the bike' has come about because our beloved council, in its wisdom, has decided to close one of my main alternative routes to work for 12 weeks. This means that everyone going in my direction will now have to go my way. So (wait for it) I've decided to try cycling! I expect I will do it once, and then not be able to move for a week. But, as Libby points out, that's even more reason to do it!
We will keep you posted...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As an aside, its really nice now that Caleb has got a bit more robust and more able to interact. This means that Bethany gets to play with a 'real baby' - which keeps 2/3 of our children quiet at a stroke. Turn the TV on, and...hey presto...a blog!
However, as she is now rather vigorously 'washing his hair', I think its time to intervene. Anyway, its almost my turn for the bathroom.
Adios...
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