A long end to the week · Friday February 16, 2007 by Rose
Just had one of those magic moments. I was telling WD that sometimes he could be a pickle. Quick as a flash he replied “and sometimes, Mummy, you can be lovely”. I asked him what I was the rest of the time (expecting a cheeky comment) to be told “the rest of the time, you are gorgeous”!
There has not been too many magic moments today though. We usually do our food shopping without the children as the supermarket sights, sounds and smells just seem to overload both JJ and SJ and set them off. However today they all had to come with us and by the time we got home, a huge family meltdown was in progress.
In order to give SJ the space he needed to get himself together, his Dad took him out to one of the nearby motorway bridges so that he could spot “Eddie Stobart” lorries. Alone, in a world of his own, for an hour, he ran up and down along the bridge waving at truck drivers and generally working it all out of his system.
JJ did some more work online, playing some more educational games on iknowthat.com, as well as catching up with his emails. I’ve tried to engage them in writing to e-pals, but they are (like their Dad) very out of sight, out of mind people and they rarely remember.
WD seems to have “gone off” learning over the past few weeks, reacting I think to SJ’s change of mood, which is a shame as we had been making nice progress. He benefits though from quite a remarkable vocabularly for a 4 year old, as he hears the rich vocabularly that JJ has, but has a chance to hear all the defintions of the words as we explain them simply to SJ.
I must say though that NOT putting a 4/5 year old boy into school makes for a very lively child! It’s quite tragic really to realise just how much school changes a lad at that age, by forcing them to be quiet, still, orderly and obedient.
