egg heads & drawing

The kids are on a roll - they just love drawing and writing at the moment. After years of moaning that I have sons that NEVER sit still and focus on something, both boys have taken to drawing for ages and ages and I had nothing to do with it! at all! Huzzah.
We're going through paper at quite a rate of knots and Zack wants to post every letter he writes to his Nana (at £1.10 a pop), so we're having to moderate the contributions.

We've had a run of head injuries - Zack fell down the stairs at Starbucks on Saturday, holding a full mug of hot chocolate :( poor bub. He had an egg on the back of his head after that.
Calvin was scooting in Ally Pally playground and managed to handle the skateboard drop-off thrice, but the fourth time he fell forward onto his scooter and T-bar'd his forehead, ending up with a blue grape in the middle of his forehead. Amazingly he hardly cried and still says it doesn't hurt 28 hours later. His brother just needs to tease him or bump him and he wails like something dreadful has happened, but one bump on the head has had very little effect in comparison. Kids!

at least poo washes off

Today Zack found a permanent marker - yes, I am entirely to blame (packing up house means there are scissors, packing tape and marker pens lying around) - and coloured in his bed linen and his toy monkey. God is very wise and allows time to pass and for you to see the funny side of things. If I'd been writing this at 2:30pm today I would have had to censor the entry - I was fuming. They aren't wrong when they say that you must tackle stains immediately because I did manage to get most of it off monkey's face, but I'm afraid his body and tail are "coloured in" for life.


Blessed relief:
Calvin is now sleeping for more than 6 hours at a stretch! So we are getting more sleep and feeling a little more able. Now all I have to do is get Keith to go to bed before 12:30 and we'll have made progress :(

He's a genius I tell you !

Zack is totally a genius... take a look at this drawing and tell me he isn't years ahead of his age!

A scarecrow I am told... tho' it may be just a head, eyes and hair.
Still, I'm am way, way, way impressed with my son's drawing ability.