Parties and No Maths

Baby D's returned to school after a month and a bit of summer vacation. He starts in Year 1, no longer the youngest in school. It's been a summer full of Christmas, and questioning how Santa Claus will make his sneaky entrance to drop off presents,  barbecues and beaches, play dates, gaming arcades and movies.

Mommy D and Daddy D took themselves a summer vacation too - the longest in a while.

On one of these long, lazy, sweltering afternoons, Baby D and I went to while away our time in the air-conned surrounds of a shopping mall. We went shopping - school shoes and clothes, ice cream and lunch. I decided to have a meaningful conversation with Baby D as we wolfed our way through kabob and chips at the Greek restaurant.

"Baby D, what are your biggest hopes for this year"

"My biggest hopes are no Maths and parties"

"What kind of parties Baby D? Birthday Parties? "

"No mum, I'd like to have parties in school."

Well Baby D, I'm glad of your optimism - I can't rid your life of  Maths, not really. Hopefully, I can get you to like it better.

Baby D's life is full of friends and parties and fun - there's Maths and school, violin and swimming.

My hopes for the year - I hope you are happy, and you have many friends, I hope you accomplish things - learn to swim and learn to love music, and tolerate MATHS.

Catching Up With Baby D

The days are slow but the years go by so fast.

Baby D's no longer a baby of course, except his mama's.

He goes to school, he's completed Kindergarten. He reads and writes (his own little journal presented by Santa Claus), he whinges, he whines. He sketches and colours, loves Transformers.  He's been known to earn pocket money and blow it all on Bumblebee. He's got friends and play dates and campaigns for sleepovers.

Baby D learns the violin, which he says he hates, he has an electric guitar to twang. He learns to swim, but mostly just faffs (I want to do whatever I want to do).

Baby D is a skilled negotiator and an expert orator and he aims to be an actor "just like Marty Mcfly".

Mummy D feels she's missed recording so much over these past five years, but aims to be a faithful historian henceforth.