Fidget was invited to a swimming party, so she and I went along. It was chaos but great fun and Fidget was not phased at all. She was really confident with her classmates and in the water, playing with others and jumping in from the side which was great to see.
In the party bag was a little bottle of nail polish (Fidget calls it nail ponnish) which I didn’t think was a great idea so I took it out. Lots of wailing and crying for it ensued. I got to the point where I was about to throw it in the bin, and Fidget was screaming. I asked her to give me a good reason not to, and she stopped screaming, and said “so you can save it for when I am older” I was impressed that she had managed in her furry to find a good reason, so it was saved from the bin.
I later found that she had climbed up to get it from a high shelf so it then went in the bin, and I thought it was the end of it.
11th March
Made some Easter gifts with the girls, did some marbling which was great fun. I got some polystyrene birds and eggs then we set up the marbling in a basin on the kitchen table and the girls dipped the birds and eggs in the water using cocktail sticks.
After having a lovely time together making the Easter Gifts, Squidge brought her rabbit over, looking perturbed to find it daubed in pink. I went to see Fidget in the cardboard truck, and found her with most of Squidge’s favourite soft toys (including the new “original tigger” that I had just got from ebay) all covered in nail polish. And the bottle of the offending substance in the corner of the truck.
I was FURIOUS!!! Particularly when I saw the state of original tigger, when we had lost him I’d felt really upset, so curiously it was seeing him painted that made me want to cry.
Fidget got a time out, but given the attack on Squidge’s toys and the fact Fidget had had to go through the bin (which has a child lock on it) to find it, we took Fidget’s jar where she has been saving money (5p a day, minus a penny each time she sucks her fingers), took her money, put it in Squidge’s jar and put the nail polish in Fidget’s jar and shut it tight.
I have calmed down since but don't mention ponnish.
18th March
Girls are dressed in their typical morning apparel – Princess gowns, I am indeed looking stylish in my pjs but I do like these pictures so will post them anyway.
25th March
this was the weekend of the super weather. We spent it all outside playing on the back deck. Squidge had decided that it was time to start using the toilet, and certainly in this lovely weather it was a great day for it. We had the potty on the deck, and after 2 early accidents we had a fine and dry day.
Here is Squidge with her Potty Progress chart after her first on-target wee.
The girls got on the swing together which was very cute…
A week earlier we had been out in the garden and I had been having a think about garden layout. A few factors had been prompting this:
- A couple of the planks on the existing beds were starting to rot
- When we made them, we made the paths very narrow which means it is hard for the girls to walk between them
- The narrow paths and how we were covering them meant it was looking quite scruffy
- We never use all the space we have fully
- With covers on the beds the path through the pergola becomes restricted
- In the evening the best part of the garden is on the West side which is where the veg beds are
1st April
We were invited over to Aunty M and Uncle As for the day. We all had a super lunch together and a lovely trifle made by Fidget. The kids had a great time playing together in the garden.
We then set out for a walk, the breeze was certainly fresher than earlier in the week but it was lovely in the sun.
Fidget did a great job helping look after her younger cousins.
Ready to go…
It was a short (a mile or so), but lovely walk, and just about right for little legs
When we got back, the kids relaxed with some ice creams, while we had some delicious homemade flapjack and a cup of tea – heaven!
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