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I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Richard, oh! Richard!

 

What's all this in aid of do you think? Well, it is in fact snot central round here at the moment :( Rosie has a bit of a cold and April has a lot of cold and i've got an ominous tickly throat. So, out come the defences in the form of various herbal and non-herbal remedies and bug-fighting food in the form of watermelon and cherries. Actually, I'm not sure the watermelon is ALL that packed with vitamin type stuff but it's wonderfully cooling on sore throats and does make you feel better. I made both kids a big fruity tea - a plateful of melon, cherries and chopped up banana :)

Whilst Rosie has pretty much stayed in bed and watched telly, April has been trying to ignore her sore runny nose by making as much mess as she possibly can. She's been building places with her bricks and animals and playing with a little Unifix pattern activity I made her and not putting anything away meaning that our lounge looked horrific.

When she'd got bored with the above stuff, she went to her room, emptied the book basket and brought all her books into the lounge. She then started piling them on the bookshelf with all her "lounge" books...... I asked her what she was doing and the slightly odd conversation went something like this:

Me - Why are you putting all your bedroom books there?

April - I fink maybe daddy should read something different at bedtime

Me - weeell, ok, but maybe you just need to bring in one book and not all of them?

April - *stops piling books up and looks concerned* yes ....but .... none of these bedroom books are Richard Scarry

Me - *baffled* no honey-bunny, all your Richard Scarry books are in the lounge I think

April - I can't have a bedroom book at bedtime then

Me - erm ... why not?

April - they're not Richard Scarry ARE THEY?!

Me - does that matter?

April - YEEEES!! I always have Richard Scarry!

Heavens! She does you know! We have quite a few books by him and they are very much loved by April. I also think Tim likes reading them to her because he had them when he was an ickle boy so probably gets a bit nostalgic. However, much as we are hugely entertained by the likes of Lowly Worm, Huckle and Mr Frumble, we have overdosed on them a bit. I think April knows the words to them all off by heart - you'd think she'd be bored, but no, never!

So, we get to the end of Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book and ask her what book she wants next.

"Hmmm, I think Richard Scarry's Bedtime Stories" Aaaarrrgggh!!!

Maybe I should hide them all .... bwa-ha-ha! I'm not that mean!