This morning was dominated by deliveries - J and I had managed a bit of an online spending spree over the last 10 days or so and everything decided to come today!
We got some clothes for me, small paintboxes to take out sketching with F, a hose, some books for J, a CD and... a Wii. And Wii Fit!
Been a lovely day, filled the paddling pool in the afternoon (with the hose, snaking over the garage roof) and F spent a couple of hours splashing about. In the morning, it was mainly delivery-takingness and a bit of online browsing and Animal Crossing.
J came home for lunch again and we had nice picky bits, salad stuff, samosas, apples, houmous...
In the evening we started on the Wii and Wii Fit - what a fantastic bit of kit! F did the balancey stuff - how excellent is that for someone with hemiplegia? It's perfect! It has these things that show visually/graphically exactly where your centre of gravity is and you can correct it until it's centred. That's £20 worth of physiotherapy right there! She did some yoga, tightrope walking, a bit of stepping. She and J did bowling, tennis and golf on Wii Sports too. Tomorrow I will get a go on it I bloody hope!
Heard F telling Dozy Mog how the letters 't' and 'h' together don't say 'terher', they say 'th' (she doesn't exactly say the 'th' sound very often, more of a 'l' or a 'v' or a 'f' depending, but Dozy Mog seemed to know what she was talking about). She also told me that, if I find bugs, whether dead or alive, I have to take them to the bugs tent if it's open and leave them there to rest, poor things. This evening, in the middle of a conversation at the table, she spotted a woodlouse on the ground and interrupted herself mid-flow to get down and say to it: 'Oh little one, do you have a secure home, I can help you to get to one if you need it, oh you are probably alright are you?'
She helped me with getting the hose sorted and paddling pool, so we have talked a bit about how water flows down due to gravity, slopes and gradients (our garden isn't flat, so the paddling pool will always be full at one edge and empty at the other!) and valves.
We had a couple of huge laughs - one when I was letting the hose down from the bathroom window (long story) and we joked about a handsome prince coming along and asking the princess to 'let down your beautiful green garden hose' - and another when I found a rubber band on the door handle and she said 'it was on my wrist' but it sounded like 'on my list' so I teased her that she kept a list of random and bizarre things to do, which we thought were just her being a 6-yr old, but were actually all planned and organized, e.g. 1) put rubber band on door handle 2) put a piece of paper on the bottom step 3) put lego bricks on the kitchen floor, etc.