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Sophia's 8th birthday party went very well. 12 kids, well behaved,
lots of climbing, no deaths.
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Sophia's 8th birthday party went very well. 12 kids, well behaved,
lots of climbing, no deaths.
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is here on Pixelfed.scot.
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Can you guess how old she is?
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Shortcut home through the cherry blossom
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Today the white flakes on the ground aren't snow they're blossom.
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Sophia likes sharing the car boot with the dogs.
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Can't go anywhere in Scotland without finding a castle.
(In this case Waverley train station)
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Nice mist on Arthur's Seat this morning.
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The first time Gideon fell asleep in front of the toilet we moved him
to a comfy chair. From where he woke up still feeling sick and Jane
found him lying on the floor with a bucket he'd found and relocated
him back to the toilet, where he then fell asleep again.
I missed all of this because I had passed out in bed feeling rubbish. I did wake up to various noises, but each time I did I tried to open my eyelids, failed, and fell back to sleep again. Thankfully Jane isn't feeling as bad as me, and Sophia was off having a play date at the other end of the street.
So far nobody has actually thrown up. Fingers crossed that continues.
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About two months ago Gideon discovered Mario Odyssey. He played ¾ of
it with me, and then restarted and played the whole game by himself.
And then followed that up by playing all of Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
And then, this afternoon, discovered that we have a PS4. So now we're
playing The Last Guardian. He is delighted by his pet dog-dragon.
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Last Sunday Sophia threw up.
She spent Monday and Tuesday with a fever, and then Wednesday clearly feeling better but not well enough to go to school.
She was mostly either asleep or watching videos. I worked at home on the Monday, when she mostly slept.
On Tuesday I had to work from the office, which is when Jane had to deal with a lot of...demands.
And then I worked at home on Wednesday, although I did drop-off and pick-up. She continued to have demands, and we split them as best we could, depending on who had meetings when.
And then by Thursday she was feeling much better, and made it in to
school for World Book Day, where she was Sophie from the BFG (pyjamas
and drawn-on glasses). And since then she's thankfully been fine.
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Nice sunset.
(And lovely that the sun is up when I wake the kids at 7am and the sky
still looks like this when I get home at 6pm)
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Sophia spent a chunk of Monday evening writing up her half term week
without having to. Her handwriting is already better than mine.
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Spent the afternoon at Hugh and Meredith's, where Hugh showed Sophia
how his 3d printer works (and how he makes 3d dungeons out of foam).
Very cool stuff, and they both enjoyed their souvenirs.
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Day at the beach. They had lots of fun, even if it was 1 degree above
freezing.
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I came in the front door to find Sophia lying there waiting for me.
(She leapt up, gave me a hug, demanded to know what was for dinner,
and then lay back down to watch videos.)
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Fairly sure that this used to be a bath.
Before Sophia watched a video on how to make the perfect comfy hideaway.
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Nature is looking particularly fractal this morning.
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