23rd September 2007
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Evan finally gets to meet Roary!
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I mentioned to Evan a few weeks ago that Roary the racing
car was going to be at Legoland. That probably wasn't the
wisest move I have made as Evan doesn't really understand
weeks, though he is starting to grasp days of the week and
weekends now. As a result of that mishap, he's been talking
about Legoland and Roary for a while now. Well the day is
finally here, today was the day to go and see Roary.
Caroline's family were off to Legoland this weekend as well
so we made plans to meet up with them as it's much better to
do these kinds of trips in a group. We learned our lesson
from the Legoland Live experience earlier in the summer by
leaving really early to get to the park by 10am. It was a
wise decision as we got a car parking space right at the
front of the park. Evan as usual had a great time, he'd been
talking about the famous Ollie the Dragon roller coaster
that we queued 30 minutes for last time before refusing to
go on. We decided to give it another go this time as he was
adamant that he wanted to go on it. There was 4 of us so we
queued again for about 20 minutes this time and sure enough
Evan started to cry as we step into the seats. Caroline just
plonked him down and said "stop crying, you'll like it". He
wasn't screaming like last time so the stewards let us keep
him on. As soon as the ride started he stopped crying and
enjoyed it just like the first time we went on it. I'm still
not sure why he was crying in the first place.. who knows...
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Head to head fire challenge at Legoland..
Uncle Frank Won!
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We did a few new rides this time including the fire engine
challenge, which he seemed to enjoy, though he got a little
scared when we were rushing around trying to beat all the
other people in the engines next to us. We came second, his
Uncle Frank beat us all! Caroline headed off to see Roary
with Evan at the end of the day whilst I queued for an hour
with the adults for the big roller coaster. I'm not really a
roller coaster fan, I find them terrifying but I still put
myself through all the pain and do them just because... I
think it's because I feel it in the stomach, like when you
go over a hump back bridge - it makes my stomach clench and
feel funny. A roller coaster has the same effect, Caroline
on the other hand gets a head rush and feels nothing in her
stomach. We bought the picture because I looked so terrified
in the back where as Caroline's nieces just screamed and
smiled. I let them keep the picture, though Caroline did
find it amusing to look at.
I joined Caroline and Evan at the Roary tent afterwards and
it was absolutely great. Roary was a real little car, a
little bigger than a go kart, he moved around, made revving
noises and his hat and wings moved up and down. It was great
and it was probably Evan's highlight of the whole day. The
guy looking after Roary let Evan climb over the haystacks to
sit next to him so that I could get a great picture of them
together. He couldn't stop smiling, he seemed really happy.
My only concern is that Evan will now expect to see Roary
the racing car at Legoland every time we visit. We woke up
on Sunday morning to that exact question - "Can I go to
Legoland to see Roary mummy?"
Evan loves fire engines and this is one toy we don't really
have, so when I spotted a lego fire engine in the shop with
a working siren and lights, I just had to buy it for him.
He's been playing with it all weekend, I wonder how long
it'll last... :)
18th September 2007
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Evan has fun making edible playdough.
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Oh the joys of nits. I collected Evan from nursery this
evening and was told that he'd spent a lot of time
scratching his head. With his hair being so fair it
didn't take me long to spot the little bugs crawling
through his hair *shudder*. It's been a very long time
since I saw a nit and at first I didn't think they
looked like them but after a phone call to my mum we
decided that they probably are. Aren't mums great, they
always seem to know what to do in new circumstances like
this. My mum never fails me and she's always full of
insightful information when I haven't got a clue. I was
due to go football training that evening but I decided
the nit issue needed to be resolved immediately and it
wasn't something I could leave Caroline to deal with on
her own.
We weren't entirely sure of our plan of action but the
psycological itchiness was starting to really irritate
me and the cat flee comb - yep that's all we had to hand
wasn't helping because nits are a lot smaller than cat
flees. In the end we resorted to the reliable crew cut -
I'm so glad we had a boy, it would have been too cruel
to inflict this kind of hair cut on a little girl. Evan
wasn't impressed as we had to wake him up to do this but
when I said we were going to get rid of all the bugs he
cooperated as much as any 2 year old would. It wasn't an
immediate success because we spotted quite a few eggs
left behind by his roots. We usually give Evan a grade 4
hair cut and I was hoping a grade 2 would eradicate
them, but that was not the case here. We then spent the
next 10 minutes pulling as many eggs out of his wet hair
with our finger tips - yuk!
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Evan demonstrates where Tottenham have
been going wrong this season.
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I did get told off by my mum for shaving his hair
off, instead I should have found an all night chemist -
oh well we live and learn from these situations. I went
to the chemist the next day and they didn't recommend
the solutions that you see advertised on TV, instead a
good old nit comb and lots of conditioner. This nit comb
I bought was £10! At that price, it had better work... I
forgot to buy some cheap conditioner so the next evening
Evan had the "Fructus Garnier" treatment instead! This
nit comb worked a treat, it found another 6 or 7 eggs
that we had originally missed. The most amusing part of
this whole situation was when we arrived at nursery the
morning after the shaved head. Everyone was saying "ooh
Evan you've had a lovely hair cut" and his response was
"because of the bugs, I don't have bugs in my hair" - It
was rather amusing :).
