Still alive.  Life good, so no updates (not needed to whinge too much, y'see ( Read more... )

Yesterday  we drove past some roadworks.

Dan: "Daddy, why are those men digging up the road?"
Jez: "I don't know, why do you think they are?"
Dan: "Maybe they're pirates looking for treasure!"

Today he read THREE books. Real ones.

Admittedly, the books were first readers, not the works of Shakespeare.  Here is the text of one, for your further enlightenment:

Run, Rat, run!

Rat met Cat,
Run, Rat, run!
Cat met Dog.
Run, Cat, run!
Dog met Pig.
Run, Dog, run!
Rat hid! Cat hid! Dog hid...
...in a red hut!
Pig ran in!
(at this point, all the animals jump ( Read more... )

I've posted the proofreading assignment.  Quite worried now that I'll have screwed it up and that'll be another potential career down the drain ( Read more... )

I'm sitting on my mum's computer, listening to Dan making jigsaws happily, waiting for mum and Jez to emerge from their beds so I can kiss the boy farewell and head off to Southsea.  Leaving my little guy with my parents is going to be either great fun or hugely traumatic for him. Probably both.  It was hard enough last year when Jez and I did a ( Read more... )

( It was a 'b', not a 'gr'! )

"Dan! Breakfast time. Come on."

"Lightning McQueen wants his breakfast too, Mummy. He wants petrol sandwiches. He wants petrol sandwiches for breakfast AND lunch."

"Oh really? So what does he have for dinner?"

"Petrol sandwiches. He ALWAYS likes petrol sandwiches. And he's having oil for pudding."

So, I've joined the PTA at Dan's school, and last night we had a Beetle Drive at school as a fun/fundraising night. I haven't been to a beetle drive since *I * was at primary school. Lots of shaking dice and drawing wonky beetles - different numbers correspond to different body parts - head, body, tail, feelers etc.   Anyway, I baked cakes to sell ( Read more... )

I'm constantly amazed by Dan's deductive reasoning.  At breakfast, he pointed out that the Honey Monster doesn't have any teeth. "But how can he chew his honey monster waffles with no teeth, Mummy?"  I couldn't answer this important question, but my son could! "Maybe he had wobbly teeth and they fell out and his big teeth haven't grown yet ( Read more... )

 Dan went back to school today. I just wrote a long post about it and it disappeared ( Read more... )