Nothing

April 20, 2013 LagosMum1 Comment

Now that Vinay is in nursery I suddenly find myself with spare time in the mornings. (I have things to do – but usually I end up playing Candy Crush and reading trashy novels.)

As much as I enjoy having time to do these things, I do miss Vinay. And I wonder about what he’s doing. Is he participating in activities? Is he drawing? Painting? Singing?

I love picking him up at the end of his day and seeing his face light up when he sees me waiting for him.

I like hearing about the things he’s done that day. Usually he just shares one thing. “I played outside.” Or, “I painted a cat.” And then it’s up to me to ask questions so I get more information. Nothing wrong with that – and understandable at his age.

Since he’s gone back this week though, things are different…

Me: What did you do in school today?

V: Nothing.

Me: Did you draw?

V: Yes.

Me: What did you draw?

V: Nothing

Me: Oh… Did you sing a song?

V: Yes.

Me: Oh that’s nice! Which song did you sing?

V: Nothing.

Me: Did you eat your snack?

V: Yes.

Me: What did you eat?

V: Nothing

Bloody hell.

Aren’t these meant to be answers to questions when he’s in his teens?

Patience

April 19, 2013April 19, 2013 LagosMumLeave a comment

The older Vinay becomes and the more independent he gets, the more he tries my patience.

I understand that he’s trying to see how far he can push me by testing his boundaries. Or is it my boundaries? And I know that his behaviour is quite normal for a two and a half year old.

What I don’t understand is why he deliberately does things that he KNOWS he shouldn’t. Like throwing things, standing on books, kicking the dog, not eating lunch and/or dinner… The list goes on and on.

But what I really want to know is…

How is it possible that I, his mother, had more patience with a class of twenty five and six year olds than with one two year old?

Arty Crafty Stuff

April 18, 2013April 18, 2013 LagosMumLeave a comment

I’m not the most creative of people. I’m really not.

I hated doing Art at school. And I wasn’t too fond of teaching it either.

Finding fun and suitable activities was easy. Colleagues always had great ideas – but I never did. *sad face*

The fact that I don’t have a creative bone in my body had been weighing on my mind for some weeks – because I’ve always wanted to do art and craft activities with V. And while, like I said, getting the ideas is easy, sometimes finding the materials isn’t!

Just before Easter I was ordering some stuff on Amazon and came across Alex Little Hands pre-school craft kits. They looked interesting (and easy!) so I thought I’d order a couple.

Today we opened the first one…

Inside, each pop stick art animal that you could make was packaged individually. No faffing about looking for this bit and that piece. And a glue stick was even included!