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She doesn’t watch Breaking Bad, honest! She just likes dressing up and posing!
And there you are: she’s nice, really. No Crystal Meth involved, OK?
Hope everyone is staying safe and warm in this stormy winter weather.
It was Jake’s turn to say the magic words that can make this here Daddy very happy.
The Mummy had cooked dinner & I was in the kitchen clearing up, as is my wont.
She & Jake & Ellie were all in the lounge watching TV together.
Suddenly there was the sound of rapidly approaching quick little footsteps…
Then a little voice, shouting
Wait for it…
“DADDY, COME AND WATCH FOOTBALL WITH US!!”
Yes, they were all watching football. Without me.
And they wanted me to watch it with them!
I was sorely tempted, and as much as I would have loved to accept the gracious invitation as a dutiful Daddy I carried on clearing up after dinner.
I did though get in to the lounge as soon as I could!
To find that they were all now watching Sooty. Apparently the match was very dull.
And anyway my first (sporting) love has always been rugby: I hope to introduce Jake & Ellie to its joys as soon as I can!
So, “Izzy Wizzy let’s get busy!”
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Davina McCall.
When she presented Big Brother I used to find her very annoying. All those OTT mannerisms & that wacky enthusiasm! It seemed very manufactured to me.
Having said that, past the 1st series or 2 I found BB itself very annoying: just full of Fake.
She seems to pop up on a lot of charity events these days; Red Nose Day, for instance, where she both presented on the day & reported from communities in Ghana who were in need of or who were benefitting from aid.
I saw her on the news yesterday, Continue reading “A Post About Davina McCall”
Jake was heading on upstairs & asked for my company.
What that actually means is that he wanted me to play music from ‘Frozen’ on my ‘phone while he had a poo. That’s become something of a tradition here.Â
After ‘Frozen Heart’ (his favourite) & a little ‘For the First Time in Forever’ Ellie decided to join us.
“Hello Ellie”
“I’m not Ellie, my name is Shakora”
I don’t even know where she gets this one from.
Continue reading “The Princess and the Poo”
In December we took Jake & Ellie to the cinema for the first time: we saw Disney’s ‘Frozen’ & they both absolutely loved it!
I was impressed as well. Although it’s a children’s film I thought everything about it was top quality: the voice acting, the animation & visuals, the characterisation, the dialogue, its humour were all outstanding. I also particularly liked the way it dealt with quite heavy themes in a way that was palatable even to 3-year-olds.
Then of course there’s the music. It was excellent – in a Disney context of course – Â & unsurprisingly the musical is already being planned & is heading to Broadway, then presumably here as well.
Music plays a major part in my life & it has in Jake & Ellie’s too. I love to play music for & enjoy it with them, & have a collection on my ‘phone of 100s of songs that they like. I knew they’d love the music from ‘Frozen’ so I bought the soundtrack album for them.
I wasn’t wrong!Â
We listened to it for the first time in the car on the way back from ‘Monkey Music’ last week: they were ecstatic, especially Ellie! When ‘Let It Go’ came on they were  singing along with utter abandon at the tops of their voices, heads raised, gesticulating wildly, arms waving about as if in a manic West End musical!
At home we played the songs in order; instead of the usual TV or tablet games – which sadly has become the norm in the new house while our unpacking has been delayed – they just sat listening on the sofa. While listening they were talking together & with me about the songs, remembering what happened in the film when a particular song was sung, talking about the characters & the story, enjoying the pictures in the sleeve notes & trying to read the song titles & lyrics there.
The power of Music!
It was wonderful
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Jake had found one of his magic wands; he loves pretending to be a witch / wizard (yes, I’ve tried explaining; he doesn’t care!) & doing Magic.
He’d been using it to do magic spells on the Mummy, while she was preparing dinner.
Says the Mummy, jovially: “I hope you weren’t trying to turn me into a frog!”
Straight away he responded, quite matter-of-factly:
“No, I just wanted you to go away”.
Riiiight…
Well, at least his cheek comes with a sense of humour, I suppose…
Also, I think the spell he’s looking for is “Expelliarmus”, but it’s probably best not to tell him that yet – just in case it actually works!
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Oh, yes: ‘Frozen’: Jake & Ellie’s first trip to the cinema! Last year.
Yes: bit of a gap; I know I wrote “tomorrow”. I’ve had a lot going on here lately…
As I said, they love films, & have done since very young. Early favourites were ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘The Wizard of Oz’Â & ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’. More recently they’ve both loved ‘Tangled’ & Jake has fallen in love with ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’. And actually I may have as well!
We needn’t have worried about their ability to sit through the film without being noisy or running around: they loved it! Jake especially was rapt throughout, almost entranced.
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At 3 3/4 Jake & Ellie are already at a point, & have been for some time, where – despite my best efforts – it’s become increasingly difficult to ensure that they eat well & that they avoid too much ‘junk food’.
We were having a little chat about this, as we parents sometimes do: you know, to help them along life’s little highway. Which at the moment often seems paved with chocolate, crisps, sugar & E numbers.
I’m sure you know the drill: we were trying really hard to distinguish between healthy ‘food’ that’s good for you (“Like Sports Candy!”; “Yes, that’s right, Ellie”, breathing a silent prayer to Sportacus & co.), & snacks that might taste good but can be bad for you, aka ‘treats’.
They seemed to understand.
Then Ellie had a question:
Continue reading “Well, I guess it depends what’s in it…”
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We were watching an old favourite, The Smurfs.
Ellie was being quite chatty.
“I had a baby and when the baby saw Gargamel she got scared & she went back in my tummy!”
Um, right…
Well, they have been studying ‘the body’ at pre-school, but I had no idea they’d got quite that far!
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