I meant to write up a post just after half term but the last week went by in such a flash that it was the weekend again before I knew it. Half term itself was a blur of playdates, binge watching Happy Valley (yes I know how late to the party I was!), a monster walk that turned my legs to liquid, work and a Disney pj day thrown in at the end to recover from a much more full on week than we’d planned. I worked quite a bit last week so today has been nice to spend some time with Henry- we went for breakfast with Nanny and Pops as an early birthday treat for him, but also to just have time together to sit and binge a bit of Clarkson’s farm and eat chocolate without it being stolen by the kids or having them jumping all over us whilst we try and have an actual adult conversation.

As I say the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a blur but there have been a couple of anecdotes the kids have provided us with.

Polly has started a new favourite game of ‘restaurants’ where she makes you up a plate of whatever you fancy from their little kitchen. When Henry came home from work at the weekend and sat on the sofa she was straight onto him asking him what he wanted, as a joke he replied “a poo” which she took in her stride and replied immediately with “you can’t order poo,” he then headed upstairs and when he came back he was greeted with a little plate of plastic food complete with a drawing of a poo from his savvy first born.

Clara has also taken on the restaurant game but she takes six requests to bring you your order as she usually declares “no, not got that” to most things when asked “what you like?” But she didn’t bat an eye the other day when Seb replied “children.” (We have Unicorse from Bluey to thank for that slightly disturbing reply!).

Another new favourite game the girls keep playing is ‘Mummy goes to work and takes baby to school on the way.’ The other day Polly had the little two playing her baby twins and me playing her teenage daughter whilst she went off to work for the day, but my god did she make me feel seen playing this bloody game when she huffed halfway through “this has been such hard work,” I asked her what had been and she tutted declaring “them” pointing at her younger siblings.

Seb made me realise I should probably be watching my language a bit more around them when he came downstairs after having a slight toilet mishap and boldly announcing “I’ve got bloody shit all over me!” Just to state he did not have ‘shit’ all over him, he hadn’t wiped properly and had a slight skid in his pants bless him but nothing to have a meltdown over.

Clara then let us know how quickly she’s growing up when she took a green stamp apart and got herself cover in ink. I told her “you’re looking a bit green there” and she replied “Yeah I should go doctors about that.” Thankfully it was just her that was green as I got hold of the stamp before she got too creative with the fixtures and fittings in the living room.

The sarcasm in this house is so high at present that no one can escape from it and Polly outdid herself this evening dishing out the burns. First off she presented Seb with a card that she had made him, he happily took it off her till he realised she’d addressed it ‘to poo Seb.’ I mean she had signed it off ‘love Polly’ but still! She then got me when she didn’t find my funny accent amusing whilst I was joking about washing her in the kitchen sink with the plates and she made me a lovely sign which simply read ‘stop talking.’ These kids are learning too much sarcasm way too quick that we can’t keep up.

I don’t really have much more to add tonight so I’m going to make another cuppa and settle down with some reading before the boy gets home and then we can shit ourselves up again watching the latest ‘Last of us!’ I’ll just leave this last little video of chaos which is the many faces of Clara watching her siblings have an argument about goodness knows what!