Toddler diaries: Real coffee needed

"Not Tesco again!"

I broke my cafetiere at the weekend, two days of instant coffee was enough; I need all the help I can get in the morning, and instant coffee just doesn’t cut it. So it was another trip to Tesco, but this time I remembered to brush my hair and had even washed my fleece! We still got lots of looks though, as I let Joshua wear his Incredibles outfit, complete with gloves and mask. It was a fairly uneventful trip. Mr Incredible used his powers to persuade me to buy himself and Elastagirl a drink and a doughnut in the café. He really blessed me by waiting until we were at the checkout before announcing he needed a wee. We had to abandon our tray of food and leg it to the disabled toilet, well as much as you can leg it with two children, a baby and a supermarket trolley. Mission successfully accomplished, we reclaimed our tray and paid for it - £1.88 for three drinks and two doughnuts. Not bad, even Daniel would approve. That’s compared to £1.60 for one muffin in Starbucks!!! I think we can only go there when accompanied by rich benefactors - any offers welcome.

PM: Not great. I wasn’t feeling very well and the oldest two were driving me crazy. Decided to take some time out by myself with Caleb in the lounge. In the short time I was away the dining room had turned into a war zone. Bethany was covered with felt tip and glue, there were stickers everywhere, felt tip on the dining chairs, and to top it all she had done a wee on the carpet. A little later, with order restored, I decided to put them all in the bath. While drying Caleb I was quite pleased to see Bethany and Joshua getting into the bath by themselves. However when I went to look, Bethany had done another wee on the bath mat, on top of one of Mr Incredibles gloves (the sacrilege) and Bethany was in the bath half dressed. Oh happy days!! At least they were both in bed asleep by 7pm. Unfortunately Caleb has decided he’s hungry and just woken up again.