Hah. Monday morning.

Well, we haven't eaten breakfast yet, but I have scrubbed measles off both children in the bath, using a scrubbing brush on Linnea's body and a facecloth on her face and Emer's body. While I was upstairs listening to the death toll in Australia Linnea was downstairs climbing chairs to find the permanent markers.

She didn't like the scrubbing brush.

Anyway, now all three of us have washed hair and the worst of the spots are off both girls. I can't get them off the bathroom wall.

And the dishwasher is running, and the laundry is on and the other laundry is hung up and, at last, the porridge is cooked, so here we go.

Children's updates

Several people have posted these to my friends list in the past 24 hours. I've not done many of them but I had a go today. It was difficult for me because I really don't think this way about them any more; I can remember doing it when Linnea was little and astonishing everyone by crawling and walking and so on far younger than was reasonable, but I stopped sometime.

Anyway, I'm doing them as separate posts, partially because they are incredibly long and partially because I find it interesting to look at the two documents side by side. So that's what's coming up next.

Developmental update: Long: Linnea 4 years 10 months

Linnea
( Really, long )

Developmental update: Long: Emer 2 years 6 months

Emer
( Really, long )

Conversations with my daughter

Ailbhe says "Emer, if you put on a nappy and get dressed you can go to the shop with Daddy to buy chocolate."
Emer says "No."
Ailbhe says "No?"
Emer says "No. Buy hawwot."
Ailbhe says "Buy a carrot instead of chocolate?"
Emer says "LOTS a dem."
Rob says "Lots of carrots?"
Emer says "A daytos too."
Ailbhe and Rob giggle madly.