Is There A Bug Going Round?
K’s been ill today.
He went to the optician’s yesterday and later complained that the light that had been shone into his eyes had given him a bad headache. So bad that we had to pick him up from school before lunch time.
Within a few hours, he had a high temperature.
An hour later, he threw up!
At Last!
K’s left adult front tooth is finally coming through.
Bearing in mind that this was the baby tooth he managed to knock out when he was only four, having a child with two front teeth after almost three years will be quite a novelty. With luck, it will be through properly in about 4 weeks or so. Which means he has between now and mid-December to sing “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth”.
Back Again
We’ve just got back from a few days in London.
Travelled on Friday evening and stayed near Euston overnight and then went onto to Ruislip on the Saturday morning for a final Discword Convention 2006 Committee meeting that took most of Saturday afternoon. R, K and I spent the night at a local bed and breakfast whilst N stayed at a friend’s house.
Caught up with friends on Sunday morning then back to Euston again.
Awkward Kids
Remember ‘Class Monitors’?
Well, these days, they’re called ‘VIPs’ – or at least they are in K’s school. Each morning, Miss chooses the VIP for the day and this priviliged person gets a special chair and gets to help Miss. And… oh yes…they get to wear a badge/sticker.
K has kept most of his VIP stickers from last year so I gather that, in the world of a 6 year old, these things have some kudos.
Today, K was chosen as the VIP. The first time he’s been chosen by his new teacher. Yay!
So why did the little ?$*^#$ tell his teacher that he “wasn’t allowed to wear badges
“? That’s news to us. Apart from going through the pretty-standard-for-this-age phase of telling whopping fibs for no reason, he seems to be taking some sort of perverse pleasure, lately, in deliberately denying himself things that he wants and/or likes. And I have no idea why.
I intend to completely ignore this behaviour as much as possible but it completely bewilders me. Even as an experimental flexing of some sort of personal power/control muscle, it’s a bit drastic at times.
Panic over…
K went missing for about 45 minutes earlier today.
When I say ‘missing’, I mean we couldn’t find him, it was lunchtime and he wasn’t beating the door down demanding food with menaces. For a six year old who probably lists eating as one of his top 3 occupations, this was a Major Hiccup.
It might be finished by November
Current Mood: Pleased 🙂
The chunky winter cardigan is almost half-finished. I managed to add another 8-10 inches over the weekend. I’ve also finally figured out that it’s knitted from one side to the other rather than from top to bottom. At least the pattern makes sense now!
Garden Show
Mood: Pleased 😀
This weekend saw the annual local garden show with both boys entering things they’d grown.
