Mild Peril

Gabby was back to her normal self on Friday, as if nothing had happened. Then the evening came and her temperature came back. She has been up and down ever since. The other two children are getting “end of term” syndrome and need the break I think. Petty arguments and fights break the peace on occasion.

Is it possible to get a curry hangover? We had a takeaway Friday night, a lovely Malaysian curry with just a single bottle of beer. Next morning, I felt like I’d had 5 bottles of beer. Mind you, I felt equally bad Monday morning as well, so maybe it is a bug.

We were going to go to Legoland on Saturday but a “fun day” put us off. It would have been packed and one of the “attractions” was Barney. I’d have gone if I been allowed to take Hiro’s sword and sort him out once and for all. Barney is not a Hero. Plenty more days this summer to go. We nearly went Sunday but the weather wasn’t very good. Instead we went on a bike ride after Jeannie had her Mock RAD exam. She did well and passed to go to the real exam in November. Again, I think Gina was more nervous than Jeannie. But, apparently she really knew her stuff on this one.

On the bike ride (well Ryan went on his scooter and Gabby was in the pushchair and I was pushing her and Gina walked so really Jeannie went on the bike ride on her own!) Ryan managed to find the nettles and sting himself again. If he had a hero power it would be the ability to find nettles when no one else can.

On Sunday, Jeannie performed in her latest ballet medal test on Sunday. She was doing a traditional Swiss dance. Whilst she had been practicing each week, she didn’t seem as confident as in her previous medal tests and the mock dance was her least impressive one yet. However, I’m happy to say she did really, really well. She was full of confidence, smiling and didn’t put a foot wrong. Of the dances I saw, she was the best, but then again I did have to wait outside for a while with Gabby (who shouted “Jeannie” just as she came on, but was otherwise very well behaved).

On Wednesday, Jeannie lost her 2^nd tooth and we can see the big teeth coming up behind now. We tried to make fun of her speaking funny, but she seemed to speak normally again pretty soon.

On Friday, we got the school reports and both were very good. Jeannie was once again, excellent. I had more issues with the lack of detail in the report which didn’t have very much specific to her (copied out from the Level 1 specs Gina found out later). Ryan had made “fantastic progress” with his writing this term, despite still being slightly below average, but then he did come into the school later and is now doing really well, so should catch up.

On Saturday, Jeannie had her R.A.D. ballet lesson and as most of the group has gone up to the next year group, she was one of only two children in the class. And the other didn’t turn up, so she had a 1-1 with the teacher. She has her mock exam next Sunday. Ryan had his last music lesson. He hasn’t really enjoyed it this year, and probably won’t carry on next year. In fact, it will probably clash with the football group he is going to start at. I’ve agreed to help with the team as I know the organiser and it is quite exciting as he is currently doing his management badges – like proper managers do (except Gareth Southgate) and thinks I should do it too.

On Sunday, Ryan got his Level 1 badge for swimming which is a great achievement. He has done really well this year in swimming. In the afternoon, I took the kids to see Shrek The Third for doing really well in their reports. It isn’t as good as the first two. In fact, the biggest laugh came for the trailer for the Simpsons Movie “Spider-Pig! Spider-Pig!”