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If the kids are good all week and earn enough stars (and even if they're not - don't tell them) they get a little reward. Today's was a cracker, a little lego car and (I think it's meant to be) dog X-Ray machine to put together. I think it's a vet thing. If my wife is prepared to offer prizes like this for me, if I get enough stars for what she decides is good behaviour, then I would be the best husband ever. Maybe all wives should do this. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't toe the line for such rewards.
I had an enormous amount of fun putting this together for them, first by guessing where I thought stuff was meant to go based on the picture on the box and then when that didn't work following the instructions booklet. I don't have great confidence in my ability to work with my hands, even at a level aimed at 4 year olds. But I felt like a God when I finally got everything together in the right place. This could be the start of a dangerous obsession of adult man liking doing children's thing. I will end up like Will Ferrell in the Lego Movie or TV's Emma Kennedy.
We've got lots of trips out with the kids planned for the rest of the school holidays. We're so used to being stuck indoors that I have to keep reminding myself that it's OK to go out. Catie was making lunch for her folks today and I realised that I could just get the kids (and me) out of her hair and go for a drive. I didn't even ask for a star.
I took the kids scooting round the lake and then they played at the playground. The other day Ernie had been here and seen a dirty scooter being lifted out of the water, like some kind of wheeled Excalibur. It made a big impression. He talked of nothing else.
We had a good fun morning, but this (on top of a few early mornings and disturbed nights) did me in and after lunch, with the in-laws here to help look after the kids, I had to go back to bed. They must think I do this all the time, as it nearly always happens when they are around (or they might start taking it personally). But it's only the only time my body allows me to relax and when it does that it demands to catch up on lost sleep.
The sleep made things worse of course.
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