As it happens I was down in the lovely seaside town of Herne Bay spending time with my scatty sister Annette her lovely Husband Roger and my strangely sober Mother! Also at various times, various much loved nieces popped in and out to say hello on there way to various more exciting parties than ours.
I spent the afternoon of my birthday searching through Annies child development books for various quotes that can be used in our Leaps and Bounds submission. It was a very fruitful search and I got lots of info which is very relevant to our subject.
If only the relevant authorities realized how important physical activity is to a child's overall development. It aids not only the usual motor skills, but cognitive development, memory skills and even eventually aids reading and writing skills. I am a great advocate of getting children to crawl, especially if this is a skill they did not acquire as a baby, crawling is the one most important activity to be encouraged in the newborn to seven year old. It will aid co-ordination greatly and is relevant in the child being able to learn such activities as tieing shoelaces, riding a bike, catching balls and even copying from the white board. They are more likely to be clumsy and uncoordinated if they don't crawl, so get them babies crawling! Actually apparently I never did crawl as a baby. THAT'S why I can't play badmington, boys!
The evening had us playing a hilarious game of pictionary (we forgot to take cranium with us) Roger and Barry against me and Annie, to say the boys wiped the board with us is an understatement but hey! It's just a game and they cheated a lot. (me, a bad loser?) Mind you when Annie drew flames with a horse rising out of it I was somewhat confused, I thought maybe she had got phoenix muddled so that's what I guessed. She was very frustrated that I got it wrong and announced it was 'Pegasus rising from the ashes!' She was mortified when she realized her mistake. Greek mythology is not her thing obviously.
The best comment of the day came from my Mum who asked if I had been watching Coronation Street and what a shame it was that Mike Baldwin has got that dimension!
The most unsuitable present of the year went to Barry, who received some hair gel! The most used present so far, also given to Barry was a wind up torch!
My best present (birthday) was a super picture printer, you just plug your camera chip into it and hey presto out pops the pictures, I love it.
New year resolutions:
- Have more fun.
- Be a bit more assertive at work.
- Grow a new hairstyle (been short for years now)
- Start horseriding again, as I have not been riding since coming to Coventry.
Not going to say, lose weight, give up this or that as they are a hiding to nothing.
Lots of love and good wishes for the new year to all of you out there. A special good wish to my USA Mom, Pat who surprised me with a phone call today. Take good care of yourself my lovely friend!
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