Monster & Teeny

Monday Somehow Alison and I managed to get six children up, dressed, breakfasted and in a car within about half an hour. Clearly more her area of expertise than mine but some of it must have rubbed off! We headed off to see Monster House as part of Film Week. This had been the only one film that Monster had actually requested to see so I had arranged for us to see it with the HEMUK lot as it was on in their local cinema but not in ours. 

Layla, Si and C met us there but didn’t stay long as C was scared by the film, which I have to say was not at all what I was expecting and scared Teeny too. If we’d not been with the others I think we may well have not stuck it out either, but she clambered onto my lap, listened to me whispering ‘it’s just a film’ in her ear whenever she tensed up and agreed she was glad she’d stayed as they tidied it all up nicely and made everyone seem misunderstood rather than evil and gave it a nice happy ending, which was what stayed in her memory rather than the scary bits in the middle. Monster sat at the other end of the row to me, engrossed in the film and clearly loving it. Such a cinemagoer that lad .

We had a nice rest of the afternoon with Alison and co and headed home once A arrived to collect us after work.

Tuesday This time we did indeed head off to our local cinema to see Over the Hedge. Really enjoyed this one. We came out to the wonderful news that Layla and Si’s son and C’s baby brother had arrived safely into the world

In the afternoon  Monster X boxes, Teeny played and I did some CV writing work.

Wednesday Cinema again - this time it was Ice Age : The Meltdown. Equally very good and we reckoned better than Ice Age. Lots of chatter about this one in the car afterwards, debating favourite characters and favourite bits of the film, ice ages we have known and loved and mammals generally with me explaining to Teeny that bearing life young and feeding them mothers milk is a pretty good indication of a mammal although not always correct. This led to lots of shouting out names of mammals we could think of pretty much the whole way to Lucy’s house.

We had a nice afternoon with Lucy, R and R and SIL, J & M who were also there.

Thursday - the fourth and final film of the week for us was Polar Express, which was a lovely film - we all really enjoyed it. Left us feeling all festive and fuzzy too. Infact so festive and fuzzy that we popped to the local cheapie factory shop where I picked up a few bits and bobs for Christmas presents. In the afternoon Monster and Teeny played with the geomags and the plastic animals, which are far and away their most played with toys, making me wonder why we have quite so many other piles of plastic really?

Friday  I spent pretty much the whole of Friday in a foul hormone related mood. Our neighbours’ car alarm started going off around lunchtime and didn’t stop all weekend so that was the start of it. Lucy, R and R came round for lunch and playdoh play but it was soon apparent that my children at least needed to get out and run around rather than stay indoors in close proximity to me so we took them out to the park for a while which diffused things rather.

Saturday - a laid back sort of day including a walk into the local town visiting the library where I will start working a day and a half a week in December and enjoying being out and about just the four of us in the Autumnal feeling air. I did a load of baking and packed up our stuff ready to get going in the morning. I read some stories to Teeny and we generally just enjoyed a lazy day.

Sunday Off to Barbara’s house where we joined Kirsty and co aswell to celebrate Ben’s fifth birthday. A really nice start to what was a lovely week, I got to see Kirsty’s house, the children all just ran around together being loud and lunatic and we had lots of laughs and lots of fun.