Thursday 4th September

This morning (and I realise the date this is posted is somewhat different to the date of the blog but that's how organised I am!!) Josh had climbed into our changing table and was liberally spreading nappy cream all over his legs and Naomi was stood next to him putting it on her arms. I stopped them and put them in the shower.

It was preschool and I was feeling tired before I began - not a good start! But it went well. I was particularly pleased by the colouring by numbers sheet.

Later, I was trying to copy some DVDs for Steve and got so frustrated with Joshua and Naomi grabbing CDs and throwing them around that I locked them out of the room while I finished.  Josh climbed on the stool (he is beginning to figure out he can reach all kinds of places previously inaccessible to him on the stool), got hold of the keys for the door and was trying to unlock it. When he couldn't get the right one he then got the keys for the car and, as I thought, was just playing with them to get the alarm on the car to go off.   When I was finally ready to go and see what they were up to, I realised they were outside our gate (because I had left the car on the road), they had got the car unlocked, were inside the car and merrily playing with all the buttons and wands.

In the afternoon I taught Josh how to do hopscotch.  He had the idea of jumping but couldn't grasp the hop.  He did a good job of throwing the bean bag and making up his own game though.  Of course when I went to get the video camera - which was inevitably out of charge - he and Naomi had given up on the game.  And Naomi was more interested in looking through the viewfinder than being on the recording!