Doorknobs and gluesticks
May. 24th, 2008 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbhe"Linnea, what's that noise? What are you walking on?"
"Nothing. My feet are musical."
Today I was just settling down for a nice feverish nap on the sofa (our bed being unfit for human habitation due to the demands placed on it by two ill children) when I heard a Situation arising upstairs. Rob was locked out of the girls' room, and they were locked in.
When I went up there, it turned out that the children had closed the bedroom door and then pulled out the drawers of the chest of drawers, making a neat bar-latch for the door. It opens inwards so it couldn't be pushed in. Emer was distressed and Linnea was amused.
I was small-handed and wriggled my arm in the gap and wiggled the drawer all the way out of the chest and pushed it out of the way with the door. Ow. My fingers. Still.
Then I keeled over on Emer's bed and worked hard on not throwing up.
Then we moved all the furniture in the room so that they can't accidentally lock themselves in again. When they are older they can have a bolt or something; I do think children are entitled to their privacy.
Anyway, the room looks good now, though we need to move the central light fitting. We'd intended to wait to move the furniture until that had already been moved; looks like we were overruled.
We started the day by introducing Linnea to her new computer. "Move the mouse," we said. She looked at the wireless keyboard. "What's the mouse?" "It has a tail." "Aha!"
The laptops have touchpad mice. Whoops.
So mainly she was working on mouse control. Also, we need to learn a bit more about the G-Compris games; I think we've worked out how to turn off the timer and that will help a lot. And it has no net access yet but it does have a little CBeebies icon, which is a shame. I think we also also need to rethink the keyboard thing; the wireless keyboard eats batteries like smarties, so I think she really needs a long-cabled normal keyboard, which would have the added advantage of not getting lost. Perhaps a USB keyboard with integral hub, because Rob says he has loads of USB extenders, and I know we have USB mice.
I ran the biggest, hottest bath in the world today, and we all hung out in the bathroom in shifts while it cooled down enough to get into, and then we all got in in turns. So we were very steamed indeed. It did us good.
Two parcels arrived for Linnea and Emer which I had already been told were birthday gifts, so Linnea opened hers; it's a Crayola art and craft set with a blue gluestick. It has some other stuff too, like a bit of string, but mainly, it's all about the blue gluestick. She made a spider. Emer used the inkpad and stamps to make her forehead look bruised and her eyebrows look bloody. Art!
"Nothing. My feet are musical."
Today I was just settling down for a nice feverish nap on the sofa (our bed being unfit for human habitation due to the demands placed on it by two ill children) when I heard a Situation arising upstairs. Rob was locked out of the girls' room, and they were locked in.
When I went up there, it turned out that the children had closed the bedroom door and then pulled out the drawers of the chest of drawers, making a neat bar-latch for the door. It opens inwards so it couldn't be pushed in. Emer was distressed and Linnea was amused.
I was small-handed and wriggled my arm in the gap and wiggled the drawer all the way out of the chest and pushed it out of the way with the door. Ow. My fingers. Still.
Then I keeled over on Emer's bed and worked hard on not throwing up.
Then we moved all the furniture in the room so that they can't accidentally lock themselves in again. When they are older they can have a bolt or something; I do think children are entitled to their privacy.
Anyway, the room looks good now, though we need to move the central light fitting. We'd intended to wait to move the furniture until that had already been moved; looks like we were overruled.
We started the day by introducing Linnea to her new computer. "Move the mouse," we said. She looked at the wireless keyboard. "What's the mouse?" "It has a tail." "Aha!"
The laptops have touchpad mice. Whoops.
So mainly she was working on mouse control. Also, we need to learn a bit more about the G-Compris games; I think we've worked out how to turn off the timer and that will help a lot. And it has no net access yet but it does have a little CBeebies icon, which is a shame. I think we also also need to rethink the keyboard thing; the wireless keyboard eats batteries like smarties, so I think she really needs a long-cabled normal keyboard, which would have the added advantage of not getting lost. Perhaps a USB keyboard with integral hub, because Rob says he has loads of USB extenders, and I know we have USB mice.
I ran the biggest, hottest bath in the world today, and we all hung out in the bathroom in shifts while it cooled down enough to get into, and then we all got in in turns. So we were very steamed indeed. It did us good.
Two parcels arrived for Linnea and Emer which I had already been told were birthday gifts, so Linnea opened hers; it's a Crayola art and craft set with a blue gluestick. It has some other stuff too, like a bit of string, but mainly, it's all about the blue gluestick. She made a spider. Emer used the inkpad and stamps to make her forehead look bruised and her eyebrows look bloody. Art!