My adorable offspring

Both of them. 🙂

Missed Big this morning – had to get Small’s breakfast all by myself! Seriously though, did make me realise that somewhere along the way it changed from being slow waiting for her to do whatever it was she wanted to do to help, to suddenly being really useful having her doing her bits.

Went over to Barbara‘s fairly early on, and spent most of the afternoon there. We had some interesting conversations about maths, school and religion, while the children pretty much amused themselves. Although I did also end up hoovering after the amusing themselves with cornflakes episode.

Small was lovely today. E might disagree after he ran over her head with a block cart, but apart from that I thought he showed how thoughtful he is. At ballet (last lesson of the year!) he went over to look at the little baby asleep in her carseat, and just looked. Later on she woke up, and ever so carefully and gently, he gave her his toy car – putting it under her hand, and then just walking away. Awww….

he also threw a couple of tantrums about not being able to go in with Big and dance, which wasn’t quite as much fun! There’s another younger baby who is there most weeks, L, and she’s just cracked the whole crawling, pulling herself up to get at things. Small likes her too, and was watching her trying to make off with someone else’s bag when her mother shouted “No”. The face went, the lip came out and he came running to me and screamed into my lap for absolutely ages. He’d just recovered when she did it again….took him ages to build up the courage to go tootling around the room again.

Got to say though, I did rather wonder about the approach taken. Surely it would be better to take a bag of stuff for your small offspring, rather than just a paper for yourself, which you have to keep putting down to go and retrieve aforementioned offspring from other ppl’s belongings? Hohum. Wouldn’t have minded, but her chosen method was rather upsetting my son!

Oh, and Big did fit in a bit more of that self educating. Car ed, I think it’s called. In depth discussion of human biology – what is underneath our skin, how it all hangs together, what do you need to live (food, drink and air – “so how is that man going to get out of the hole in the roadworks, because if he doesn’t he’ll die, cos there isn’t any food or drink or air in there…”) And after ballet she was desperate to count her coins again, so she did some sorting of different denominations, and then started adding them up. Didn’t get very far before she was interrupted by tea, and then not far after that before she was interrupted by her bath…think we might end up doing more of that tomorrow!