It is official Edward Bear can climb! Today he managed to climb up, unaided, on to the pouffe which is in front of the tv. Once up, he made a dash for the freeview box and the tv! Coming down looked liked it wasn’t going to be quite so graceful so Dad was on hand to help him down – much to the Bear’s disgust!
This has rounded off a week of firsts for our little ‘fellows’. He had his MMR and final meningitis vaccinations on Tuesday 21st – no more ‘jabbing’ him until he is about 4 years old! Hooray! I hear him shout! This time he had two trophy plasters, one on each leg, to commemorate his ordeal.
The nurse was a staggering 40 minutes behind so we were waiting in the surgery for over 3/4 hour trying to keep the bear entertained! I wouldn’t mind so much but we had to wait over half an hour for the same nurse last time! So either she is as good at time keeping as us or there isn’t enough time being made between appointments to treat the kids. Judging by the comments in the waiting room from other parents and the highly apologetic introduction we got from the nurse some people seem to be getting a little cross. Which is a shame because the last thing a small child needs at this traumatic time is a cross parent and an anxious nurse. Surely just spreading out the appointments a little more would bring peace and harmony back to the surgery. “rant over”
Edward also experienced his first ‘bailing machine’ this week. I wasn’t there myself as Sarah had taken him to her mums for the afternoon (with the other kids). In the field these tractor things were gathering up the grass and then a big bailing machine came along and sucked up the grass and spewed out bails – he thought this was fab!
Jack and Ellie (J&E) has a brilliant time at PGL (Parents Get Lost) in Lincolnshire. It is just over an hour away – t’up norf. They arrived Saturday afternoon and came home Tuesday afternoon. J & E both made new friends and they are keeping in touch with them via email! They stayed in ‘dorms’ of 3 people which were made up of another brother / sister combo and one other ‘on their owny’.
They both did the same activities which included high rope adventures amongst the tree tops and abseiling, there were other things but I forget just now!
To finish the week off Sarah and J&E have gone to London with Yee for the last of their scheduled proms concerts. I write this whilst they are away. I am in fact listening to the very same concert live on BBC 4 (listening as I am in the kitchen and can’t see the tv!). It sounds like a great concert with one highlight being Prokofiev’s 5th. Before the concert they visited the Angel Islington tube station to ‘ride’ on the largest escalator in Western Europe (more statistics!).
So there we are – bank holiday tomorrow, the village church is holding their annual fund-raiser fete. We bought a book of raffle tickets a few weeks ago when they came knocking on the door – and donated some bottles of beer for the tombola (left over from the Christmas stash!) this week! Whether or not we go depends on the weather really and the parking! Only joking about the parking!