Beautiful. Enduring. Delight.: WHERE DID THE TIME GO?

You'll have to excuse the lack of posts this last week or so. I have had an awful cough and cold for what seems like forever thus resulting in my sinuses driving me mad and not being up to much other than looking after A&D.

Anyway since my last post we have had a massive milestone in my little ones' lives, their first morning at pre-school! They will be going for two mornings per week and I had been mentioning to them all over the summer that they would be going to pre-school in September and telling them about what they would be doing. It seemed like ages away for a long time and then all of a sudden it crept up on me. They had visited the pre-school a couple of times before the summer and so were familiar with it and very excited to be going on their first morning. They weren't even interested when I dropped them off and told them that I was going home which was a relief.

It felt quite alien not to have them with me at the shops or when I got home and to be able to do things without having to consider them. I did manage to make lunch and tea and clean the lounge properly in peace though and those of you with kids will know that you don't get to clean things "properly" very often.

When I picked them up though after their first session, the staff did tell me that they had got a bit upset a short while after I left which bothered me because I knew that I would then have problems, especially with A, the next time that they went. Well sure enough this week at both sessions we have had sobbing from A and "I don't want to go to pre-school Mommy." So much so that they have had to literally peel her off me. D isn't too bad and I am sure he would be absolutely fine if it weren't for A getting upset, but he adores her and seeing her upset upsets him. Bless my little man.

The tears are not good for Mommy's emotional state though especially as I have been feeling so poorly. I have got in the car and cried both times that I have dropped them off this week. The most annoying thing about this situation is that literally 10 minutes after I get home I get a phone call from the pre-school telling me that they are fine and then when I pick them up they have always enjoyed themselves and have lots to tell me. The trials and tribulations of parenthood eh! I am sure that they will get better with time though. (She says with her fingers crossed!)

From what I can gather so far they have:-

"Had snacks" - this is very important and the first thing they tell me every time I pick them up. My two do love their food.

"Played with Rory" - the racing car I assume.

"Done singing" - Down in the Jungle I am assuming is one of the songs as I keep hearing it sung.

"Played cricket" - what they actually did was played outside and could see the children at the school playing rounders.

"Read a story about a tiger who ate all the food" - my mom who is a teaching assistant tells me that this must have been The Tiger Who Came to Tea

"Done painting" - Mommy got a love red butterfly painting from A and Daddy also got a drawing from her.

"Exercising" - I think this is actually brain gym. A has been teaching D an exercise class at home recently which I had assumed was from pre-school and then she randomly mentioned brain gym this morning.

"Played with V" - V is a little girl who started the same day as A&D and does the same days. However on further questioning A actually clarified that she "played with her hair, but I stopped Mommy". A has an absolute obsession with hair, it is a bit of a comfort thing for her. Most people who she is close enough to to do it to are fine with this, but it does irritate me after a bit when she messes with my hair. I just don't like anybody messing with my hair. Her telling me this though did remind me that I must tell the staff about it because, as much as she cannot go round messing with children's hair and I have explained that to her so, I want the staff to know that she is being affectionate and not pulling hair and being spiteful when she does it.

From memory I think that is about all they have told me about; although I know that they have done a lot more I think they always tell me about the things that they have enjoyed most.

Catching up with them after their session is very cute and far too grown up a thing to be doing with my babies. Where did the time go?