Boxing Day and beyond
So, it’s Boxing day, we need to be at Duke’s mum’s for lunchtime and….. Duke decided to go to the Game sale and try to get a Wii Fit, would anyone be surprised if I said he failed? I’d really really love one but really can’t justify £100 for a toy! I’d settle for the dance mat thing really, that looks equally fun but without the horror of it telling you your weight and BMI! Anyway, he came home with Wii Music and a "pistol" instead so I can now shoot’em up in style….. sigh, that boy knows how to make me happy….. shoulda been born in the Southern States!
Lunch with his mum was pleasant, I cordially ignored the comments about only children and did I know how she had "happened" (one day I’ll say "no, absolutely no idea, would you like to tell me….") and got a really good cook book of Duke’s bro. Then it was off to Duke’s niece. Once they brought out the "Cranium" box it was fairly easy to talk Duke into heading home, leaving Aprilia to sleep over with Emmie, well, stay over, I’m not sure how much actual sleeping happened 
She got home yesterday just in time for a quick lunch then off with Duke to the local panto. She could have done without going really as she was that funny greyish colour that usually means she needs to be in bed! She said it was quite good but "it was loud at the beginning, and in the middle and at the end" She asked to go to bed at 5:30 
so I hussled her upstairs with a hottie, some cocoa and some calpol for the headache. I didn’t hear a peep out of her til 9am this morning!!!! She looks so much better today 
Today she has a friend from kung fu over to play (shall we call her Tigress, as in Kung Fu Panda then?). I spent most of yesterday sprucing up the house so she wouldn’t run straight back out screaming. Typically I only really needed to do downstairs as they have been playing with the Wii since she arrived. But it really did need doing and I realy do need to learn to not leave it to get this bad in future (any bets on taht happening???) Aprilia demonstrated her ability at perching on the sitting ball whilst playing so Tigress had to have a go, she decided it’s not as easy as Aprilia makes it look! I think it’s down to practice, I can remember covering the living room floor with cushions whilst Aprilia played on it not all that long ago!
Anyway, I’ve decided that Wii Music is very Montessori, one of the things is listening to pitch and ordering the notes etc so I shall be adding that into the list of things we class as "school"!
