Monday, September 18, 2006

Can't sleep

I've been lying waiting for T to wake up & cry: his cold is pretty bad. But it's ridiculous, not sleeping in anticipation of being woken up. So I'm having a hot chocolate, and hoping to go back to bed after that.

We went ten-pin bowling today, which S loves. It was good fun, although towards the end we were getting slightly exasperated with the boy, as he spent the entire time running away from us. It wears a little thin after the nth time. It worked like this: one parent would chase the boy or try to convince him through the dark arts of sweeties and hype ("Look T! Wow! Dinosaur! Ball! Car! Look at Daddy! Oooo!") that playing near our bowling lane really was fun, while the other took their turn bowling then helping S with her go, and cheering her on.

Then all swap.

One game would have been enough, I think; two rounds just about exhausted our parental repertoire and patience.

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