in our third power cut of the day. Hence the lack of posting last night – lack of just about everything really. Took Small to bed by the light of one of our rather swish camping lamps (so glad I splashed out on them, they really are excellent.) For those who asked, no, he didn’t sleep through the night before 🙁 It’s all Tim’s fault. He remarked on how I was finally getting Small into a rhythm and jinxed it all! He isn’t feeding now during the night when he wakes up, but the last two nights he has been very restless, which is nearly as bad.
We had a house day yesterday. I did nearly three hours of housework! (I know there are ppl who regularly do that kind of thing, even on a daily basis, but I loathe housework and avoid it strenuously.) So there was cleaning, hoovering, washing, washing up. I was quite pleased with the effects, although I could have done without the assistance with the hoover 😉
The children did lots of colouring, including two library books on Small’s part, but fortunately they were board books and wiped clean! Big’s 5 minute monster tales wasn’t quite so fortunate 🙁 Small is catching me off guard with a lot of this stuff – Big just didn’t do it. Odd how different children are. I don’t subscribe to the view that this is because she’s a girl and he’s a boy though, I’m tempted to think that birth order might actually make more of a difference.
Big didn’t want to do her phonics book, she wanted to start the next one, and stupidly I said I thought it would be better if she finished the first one first. Doh! Turns out she told Tim at story time that it’s too difficult for her and that I didn’t have time to help. I didn’t know that she wanted help – she didn’t say that to me. So I’m hoping we can get past that today, and if she wants to skip the difficult bits and go on to the next book, then fine, we can do that too.
There was quite a lot of story reading though, and lots of running around outside, so all in all, I thought it was a pretty successful day. Oh, and nearly forgot, Big’s favourite animal show, Monkey Business was running all afternoon, so she watched rather a lot of those too.
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6 responses to “And the lights went out…”
ah see now I had put Scarlett’s mischief down to her being a girl – and i know of at least three other girls who have been naughtier toddlers than boys in the same families…. but they have all been second or subsequent children so maybe birth order is relevant. I also think that she has acess to more mess making materials than Davies did simply because they are in the house belonging to him.
Hmm – multiple offspring families – what is your experience?
Hmmm.. i would say Amelie would definitely bear out the “more naughtiness as you go along” theory but i’m not convinced its really true. Moo has less minxy-ness in her than Fran who was no angel at all. She wrote on/destroyed just about everything and was awful with books, it really got on my nerves. Whereas Ams loves books and i don’t think she has ever destroyed a single one.
Our experience should not be used to generalise……..
Can’t really say here I have only 1 girl but I would say she is a mess maker rather than a destroyer – she rarely rips or breaks anything.
Yeh, I think it is probably more to do with availability. You may have had less stuff like that at child height when Big was Small! Bec never drew on anything she shouldn’t until she was 7 or 8 and then had to do it just because she was getting way too old to do that stuff and her time was nearly up!
Anything indellible has been stored well out of sight and mind until very recently where Lani is concerned. She was very much inclined to strip off and colour herself in with whatever she could find. There are pictures of her on people’s fridges on a few different continents, wearing a ‘blue suit’ and a big grin (she was sad she’d grown out of her favourite blue all-in-one, and had found a matching ink pad to colour herself with!) I just remembered! She also painted all the wood she could find that was unfinished (and her colour of choice at the time was black!) Naughty? No, she thought she was doing us a favour, as they hadn’t been painted yet!