Clothes Pegs. A purchase of them took place yesterday, of various shapes and colours, to supplement the ones already residing in a basket in the towel cupboard. They can be used to peg down towels on sun loungers; there is a constant and pleasant breeze in Lands Are Grotty.
However, clipping down towels round the pool is such a waste of a good resource when you are two years old. Sealed in their plastic packs, they can be rattled, banged, squeezed and slid along tiled floors. Sprung from their enclosures they become a source of great debate when clipped to table ends, door handles, chair legs, kitchen handles, toys, rubbish bin foot pedals etc.
As I write this, Mayhem has just wandered into the kitchen, sunglasses on, upside down, naked doll in hand, wrapped in its baby blanked and picked up a green peg, pinned it to the baby blanket and wandered out - no words, a bare flick of her hair, nose in the air, being a fashionista.
Oh yes, a troubled sleep due to lower back whinging about how badly a hand it had been dealt with for all these years; it was 1975, get over it. The wheel of sympathy and protests took the side of lower back, stuck out it’s notional tongue and blew a 5.9 in my general direction.
Toddler tossing - a great new game:
Ingredients and tools;
A swimming pool (obviously, it only works once on other surfaces).
Agreeable toddlers (one each if possible but you can take turns).
Anti UVB swim suits (optional but it works for longer).
Swim nappies (very necessary for toddlers who are philosophers and have no time for trivia).
Upper body buoyancy vests (arm bands work as well)
Factor 9,000 waterproof sun screen.
Rules:
Teams of two, one in the pool, one on the side.
The team member on the side of the pool (the pitcher) holds to toddler firmly but gently, with toddler facing the team member in the pool (the catcher).
The pitcher recites the incantation, “ready....steady...go” and tosses the toddler towards the catcher.
The catcher catches the toddler to control decent into the water and, depending upon the skill of the toddler, dips head under water.
Toddler screams with laughter and shouts, “again” - or, if you are Chaos and Mayhem, “more”.
When all team members are worn out, let the toddlers just float about in the pool.
Happy Wednesday everyone, hope someone has put our bins out for emptying.