SPACE
is an awesome mother and baby group that Ananda and Francis have been attending
since Jan or Feb of 2016. So today was
my turn to go and keep the fun times rolling.
We had been pre-warned to bring a change of clothing and a towel since
the theme for today was “messy play”.
The only drawback to SPACE is the timing, 9:30-11:30am – prime Francis
napping time!
We
were about ten minutes late as Francis woke up about 5 times last night, and
then was up early so I forced a nap into him – or tried to. He final fell
asleep at 8:40, so I knew I would have to wake him. Maybe they need to change the adage about
letting sleeping dogs lie to include young children too……
Anyway
the wake up was not so bad, some tears, but soon soothed away by my dulcet
tones as we sang and drove our way over to the group. None of this Wiggles
nonsense – some James instead. We were
only ten minutes late, and it didn’t feel too strange being the only guy adult
there. I’ve been twice before and they’re very welcoming. I didn’t really have a breast feeding story
to share, in the sharing circle but the ladies didn’t seem to mind!
For
the messy play, we made some corn flour gloop, mixing corn flour and water to
make a nice non-Newtonian fluid that was super weird to play with. Then it was
off outside to watch the kids play in the gloop, in the clay, in the sand and
in the water. As well as watching them
eat it! As usual Francis was spoon obsessed and spent the morning crawling
around trying to see how many things he could hold in his hands as he was crawling. Quite impressive really, how he can crawl and
carry so many things.
It
was nice to sit around and hear the trials and tribulations of the other
mothers when it comes to weaning their wee tykes and trying to get them to
sleep through the night. One mother claimed a hair-cut for her one year old did
the trick – hmmm pity Francis takes after his Dad in the follicle department.
After
getting washed up and a change of clothes we sang some songs – unfortunately it
was the Wiggles this time – and then said our goodbyes. Next week we’re meeting
at the Zoo! AWESOME!!!
Meals
on Wheels
Since
Ananda was at a conference all day today, I drove us over to meet her so that
she could feed Francis whilst we sat in the car, and to pick up the liquid gold
that Ananda had expressed that morning in our motorhome – a mobile milking
unit! I hear some people say that all that driving and pollution is very much
against Granancis’ environmental principles, BUT, the milk was expressed using
an electric pump that was hooked up to the motor homes solar panel so CO2 free
expressing. Can you say that about the milk you pour on your cereal in the
morning? I digress……
Over
achieving?
Since
it was my first full day by myself, I wanted to show that I could manage it. In
typical tradition this meant that I tried to do too much. Doing this on a
Tuesday is even worse, since it’s the day when I normally fast each week, and
by about 3pm I am normally quite Hangry (more portmantueau!). Unfortunately for our dogs, Sunny and Cain,
they were forced into joining me on my fast, as in the chaos of the move and
role switching we had forgotten to order their food for them. They had been on
short rations since Sunday, but manor
from heaven fnally arrived for them this morning in the form of a nice 18kg bag
of food.
Anyway,
Francis had a nice long nap this afternoon, so I moved the lawns, and prepared dinner, and did the laundry as
well. I'm knackered now.
Messy
play at Dinner.
Just
carrying the theme on at dinner time…….
So
Day #2 completed, here are the milestones for my Gantt chart.
One
poo– again we’re only counting Francis
No
cut lips
One
dead bird rolled on - Sunny’s version of
messy play
Two
Lawns cut
15 reusable nappies wash, dried, re stuffed and then put away!
15 reusable nappies wash, dried, re stuffed and then put away!
Six
Slinky Malinky renditions – good job it’s both of ours favourite book.
Windows
attacked with a baseball bat – one
Child
taught to purse his lips and make kissing sounds – one – Francis of course
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