Lots of children! mk2

Apparently I’ve already done a post with this title, so I thought I’d better adjust it slightly.

Bad night, late morning meant I was only just finishing dressing when the doorbell rang and I found Kirsty outside. Seems like ages since we’d seen her. Big was a bit disappointed – I’d told her that there were loads of ppl coming, and apparently three doesn’t count as loads!

Cup of tea on, and Kirsty sat down with the “I can draw” book, and ended up reading vast parts of it out. Big was right there with “what does it do” on every page – they covered insects, aeroplanes, animals…I was in stitches as I realised you could tick off reading, biology, the world around us, socialisation….

Then Barbara arrived with her gang and we had a picnic lunch. Much playing went on – when they got too loud I chucked them out in the garden. Very few dramas for the number of children in the house – we adults even managed to unpack an extra box of books and Kirsty indulged herself in buying a few!

Kirsty left about 4 (I think) and we settled the two elder girls down with some craft sticking. Been promising Big that for a couple of days, so think she was very happy to get the chance to give it a go. Small and B played with train track and R gurgled pretty happily on the floor. I was impressed with how gentle Small was while paying her huge amounts of attention throughout the day, he really seems to like babies and just wants to stroke her. Although we did have to dissuade him from investigating her eyes 😉

Barbara managed to squidge on to the sofa surrounded by children at one point to read to them, so there’s a bit of literacy as well.

And I’m sure there was loads else, but I want to go to bed now.