Thank GOD the sunshine is back, and just in time for our UK holiday next week! It really does make everything better. I can fling open the back doors and get the girls outside if I need to. I can hang the washing on the line again. We can go to the park, get out for a walk, leave the house without coats and wellies on which had quickly become the norm again in recent weeks.
Proper August weather, as it should be. Thank you!
Even if I am inside all day, seeing blue sky and sunshine makes my heart happy.
We are settling into the routine of Summer Holidays now. I’m really getting used to Aurora being here every day and I think September will hit us both quite hard when she goes back.
I feel as though we are getting more done, because we have ‘full’ days, whereas when she has her half days at Pre School, I barely achieve anything in either half. The mornings are completely taken up with getting ready, the girls consuming their body weight in snacks, playing and having lunch, and then while Aurora is there, I can sometimes squeeze in some housework, but usually try to enjoy Luna’s company for a couple of hours, before we are heading back to collect her again.
Although I say we’re getting more done… it’s definitely just more playing. But that is important for learning and development, for all of us!
Luna is starting to be able to join in with the arts and crafts time. Although she does still insist on putting every crayon, pen, pencil, and stamp in her mouth, so a little way to go yet.
I’m looking forward to when I can relax on that front slightly and we can all enjoy it as much as Aurora and I currently do (when we do it alone!)
Luna’s communication is really coming along over the past couple of weeks, which is incredible and making it just that little bit easier to understand her wants and needs. On the flipside, she has developed the ability to throw the mother of all tantrums, and she is not even 18 months old yet. Some mornings it’s as if she has two personalities, and we don’t know who we are going to get. How can someone wake up in such a fowl mood? Then nothing we do is right. There doesn’t seem to be any reason at all. She pushes away offers of food and drink yet points and screams at the fridge. Just tell us woman!
When she is in a good mood, the other side to her personality, she is a dream. She has started pulling the cheekiest giggle face, which I love. I can ask her if she wants something and she either shakes her head for no, or says ‘Neh neh’ which apparently means yes…
She has started trying to repeat some things we say and is becoming a bit of an expert at animal noises. I’m still waiting for her to really call me Mummy (or whatever interpretation she lands on. Aurora called me ‘Me Me’ for the first 6 months or so). But it will come, I’m sure.
Aurora’s bedtimes seem to have settled down now. Well, on the nights when it’s just me, they have. I really would have thought that would be when she was the most difficult, but it’s the nights when Luke is here that she plays up and gets over excited. She is still requesting book after book after book, or for Luke to build her ‘tents’ or ‘boats’ on her bed. Last night she had set up an entire ‘shop’ with all her teddies, about 25 books, and any other little toy that she could find. Maybe Daddy needs a bedtime checklist now as well...? I get it, she can be very persuasive, and I think he caves in more easily than I do. Plus, he is always looking for an excuse to nap, so lying down on Aurora’s bed while she gets everything out again seems like a win to him.
Luna is still being relatively good and has fallen asleep quite a few times now when I haven’t been in the room. Tonight, she drifted off with an entire book on her face, so that’s new.
I’m hoping that as we have now just got these routines sorted and everyone seems more settled, that going away for 4 nights next week won’t put a spanner in it again. It was after our holiday to Turkey that it became difficult last time. We shall see.
I booked Monday off this week, so that we could get an extra family day together, and I’m so glad I did. It’s funny how one extra day can make all the difference, but it felt like we had so much more time than usual. We have discussed doing this once a month if we can, either I book the Monday off, or Luke takes the Wednesday off, to give us those two consecutive days.
One of Luke’s Chef’s had an assessment at work on Tuesday, so we looked after his son for the day. He is Aurora’s age, and she has only met him twice before, but they played so nicely together, and really enjoyed each other’s company. It was sweet to watch. It gave us a real insight of what it might be like in a year or two, when the girls can play together a little better. Luna just destroys anything that Aurora plays with now, or they chase each other around whilst giggling.
It also confirmed my theory that one child feels like one child, but two feels like twenty. So, you can really add as many as you want, it doesn’t seem to get any more chaotic than two already is. If anything, it was calmer, because Aurora and George were playing nicely together, and then we could concentrate on Luna! Bliss.
I desperately need to write my packing list for holiday, and tomorrow I MUST do some housework. There just aren’t enough hours in the day.
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