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enielHappy Easter should you celebrate it!
Today started with a realisation that S must have been worrying about chocolate for a while now. See, C really likes chocolate. In that respect, she takes after me. So she's been talking about Easter for a while now. S must have understood most of what she was discussion (and has watched with her the videos of the past two Easter Egg hunts in the garden...). There is a certain speed gap between the two. This is the only reason I can imagine for his decision to grow an additional tooth. Jury's still out as to whether it's incisor #5 or canine #3 on the lower jaw, but its presence this morning explained a lot: the drooling and gnawing we had recently (even though we thought we'd finished with teething for a while), the flare-up in eczema that usually accompanies teething, the crankiness at night, why he two middle incisors are lined up a bit crookedly while there was a gap further on, which turned out not to be a gap at all but space for extra tooth... Anyways. It made me laugh.
Both C and S found their chocolate, were excited about them, and have been absolutely reasonable in the amount they have decided to eat. It probably helps that treats are not a "good behaviour" reward but simply a "we've finished lunch or dinner, so once a day we'll have something sweet out of the bucket that is used at Easter or Halloween and then usually lasts for the next six months". @aardnebby.lj and I also got chocolate eggs, so everyone munched happily along. We also did some Easter-themed crafts, and decorated our rabbit cake.
Lunch was a lovely BBQ again, and the paddling pool was out in the afternoon. There was an odd moment when the neighbour's daughter didn't understand that Catherine did not want to play with her anymore. Hardship of reconciling one situation (single child alone in the household) with another (two children stuck together so playing solo is sometime enjoyable). Combined with C's shorter attention span since she's three years younger, or inability to follow games that are as complicated (especially since they have to include social distancing) made for an awkward moment when neighbour's child got rather upset and told C she needed to get better at playing with people if she wanted to be happy at primary school. I don't think C was really listening at that point (she'd reiterated a few times she was taking a break from cooperative play to play on her own, which I was rather proud of, and the neighbour had also told her daughter nobody should force other people to play with them). Nothing felt out of control, so I'll just monitor C's mood to see if she's processing anything specific in the next few days.
Today started with a realisation that S must have been worrying about chocolate for a while now. See, C really likes chocolate. In that respect, she takes after me. So she's been talking about Easter for a while now. S must have understood most of what she was discussion (and has watched with her the videos of the past two Easter Egg hunts in the garden...). There is a certain speed gap between the two. This is the only reason I can imagine for his decision to grow an additional tooth. Jury's still out as to whether it's incisor #5 or canine #3 on the lower jaw, but its presence this morning explained a lot: the drooling and gnawing we had recently (even though we thought we'd finished with teething for a while), the flare-up in eczema that usually accompanies teething, the crankiness at night, why he two middle incisors are lined up a bit crookedly while there was a gap further on, which turned out not to be a gap at all but space for extra tooth... Anyways. It made me laugh.
Both C and S found their chocolate, were excited about them, and have been absolutely reasonable in the amount they have decided to eat. It probably helps that treats are not a "good behaviour" reward but simply a "we've finished lunch or dinner, so once a day we'll have something sweet out of the bucket that is used at Easter or Halloween and then usually lasts for the next six months". @aardnebby.lj and I also got chocolate eggs, so everyone munched happily along. We also did some Easter-themed crafts, and decorated our rabbit cake.
Lunch was a lovely BBQ again, and the paddling pool was out in the afternoon. There was an odd moment when the neighbour's daughter didn't understand that Catherine did not want to play with her anymore. Hardship of reconciling one situation (single child alone in the household) with another (two children stuck together so playing solo is sometime enjoyable). Combined with C's shorter attention span since she's three years younger, or inability to follow games that are as complicated (especially since they have to include social distancing) made for an awkward moment when neighbour's child got rather upset and told C she needed to get better at playing with people if she wanted to be happy at primary school. I don't think C was really listening at that point (she'd reiterated a few times she was taking a break from cooperative play to play on her own, which I was rather proud of, and the neighbour had also told her daughter nobody should force other people to play with them). Nothing felt out of control, so I'll just monitor C's mood to see if she's processing anything specific in the next few days.
