He can’t really be 6, can he?

I think so – and I should know!
K is 6 today and slightly schizophrenic about the whole thing, which I think proves he really is six 😆
It’s been a very busy day, which began fairly early as he woke up and wailed because he didn’t have any presents – I think he had expected a pile at the end of his bed or something 😕
Bob presented him with a couple, which he opened and suddenly it was the best birthday ever. Then he looked at the smallness of the pile and sobbed again that he had so few and it wasn’t fair 🙄 Still one to go, we reminded him, which was a Playmobil kit from us, and that was absolutely the best present ever (actually, both he and J have played with it an impressive amount today, especially considering how busy we have been) so the birthday was back on track 😉
In fact, the Playmobil kept them so busy that we had to have breakfast in the car on the way to CHEF Drama (previously only for 8+ but today was a trial session for 6-9s) because if we had stopped to eat before we left we would not have been able to ice the cakes we made yesterday to take with us…
Drama was great, apparently, then we came home via boring supermarket shopping and iced the rest of the cakes (for Badgers) and a bigger proper birthday cake (for us) and had beans on toast before heading out to gymnastics, followed by sandwiches while we watched the bigger gymnasts doing their thing and then a quick trek across the field to Badgers, bearing cakes to share.
Unfortunately neither Bob nor I remembered that we were supposed to be collecting the boys at 7 this week 😳 so Bob went to collect them at 7:30 and found a large group of adults and two small boys waiting for him…
Then we had cake and milk shake and now it’s bedtime and they’re tired but hyped – ho hum!

Yesterday was swimming, which we managed to be late for (again) so I dropped the boys off at the door while I parked. Somehow K managed to be in the pool several minutes before J, despite starting at the same time – I think enthusiasm may have something to do with it – so J missed about half his lesson and then spent the rest of it refusing to do what the teacher asked 🙄 *sigh* When they came through to the toddler pool I did manage to get him to do some of the things he’d missed 🙂 but I think I may need to talk to him about not wasting the teacher’s time and to her about it being okay to ask him to do something and then just move on and concentrate on the others if he doesn’t, because otherwise she’s going to be putting a disproportionate amount of effort into one child who won’t do it under pressure anyway 😕 I think I also need to make sure we’re there early too, no matter how hard J tries to sabotage that, so that he’s there for the whole lesson and possibly even a few minutes in the toddler pool first to get him started.
K is really coming on 🙂 He loves to show me what he can do and keeps begging for me to help him (as I spend a fair bit of each session “helping” (I call it that; he might not 👿 ) J to practise but tend to leave K to amuse himself) but A will only put up with going to someone else for a few minutes at a time and L needs help too. Mind you, I think by the time L is old enough to start lessons she will be raring to go as she is by far the most confident of the three in the water, despite having had the least exposure to swimming 😀

Much of the rest of the day was spent baking for K’s birthday, but we also managed to squeeze in a little Maths and English and some Bookworm Adventures