Woke at 6.30, got up at 8.30 already feeling like it was nap time. Could have been a disastrous day accordingly, but fortunately found an email from Em inviting us over, so once Small had had time to come around and be gently persuaded that he would enjoy it, we set off for Em’s.
And enjoy it we did. Kids played in various combinations (suspect my children’s favourite part may well have been the gamecube :oops:) but there was some harmonious out in the garden time, and the only fall out was between my two offspring when Big lost her cool and went for physical intervention instead of speaking to me. Sigh. That put her in a bad mood for the last 20 minutes or so, but other than that, it was a lovely day. Em and I actually got chance to chat and crochet, and O is an extremely delightful baby, I’d like one like that please 😉
Home with an hour to go before first Beavers of the new term – time for a quick computer turn for Small and then some food as he’d pretty much declined all lunch except for grapes and the corner of a cracker. Took him off to Beavers and ended up sitting in the foyer area rather than the car, which was way more comfortable physically, but I felt rather like I was eavesdropping.
What I could hear was hilarious mind. They went around the circle asking what the boys had done during their holidays. There were trips abroad, visits to relatives, camping, legoland, and then they got to Small.
What did you do during the holidays?
Loads of things (good start I thought).
Can you tell us about just one?
I can’t think of anything. (Sigh.)
OK, we’ll ask someone else…
Oh, I thought of something. I started a project with some plants that’s still going on. (Eh?)
What kind of plants?
I can’t remember.
Flowers?
No.
Trees?
No.
OK, we’ll go on to someone else…
I remembered! It’s watercress! (Penny drops, he’s talking about the Eino science project. Out of everything we’ve done this summer: Festival of history, Framlingham castle time travellers four times, visitors twice, numerous beach trips, visit to Landguard fort, forest school, what does he remember? The science kit that we got from playmerrily. How’s that for a recommendation Merry?).
Tim practically cried with laughter when I recounted this one last night. It’s so rare that you get such a classic reminder of how differently Small’s mind operates to everyone else’s, but this really was one.
Brought tired boy home, and Tim fed them pizza, and shortly afterwards me too. Spent some time fighting with an ftp client (unsuccessfully sadly) and then gave up and went to bed.
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