So I have decided and commited to myself, that through this trying time, I am going to do a mini blog every day. Yesterday we had to make the decision to self isolate due to Ryan showing mild symptoms of this horrid disease. He's okay in himself but has a new dry cough and bizzarely, cannot smell or taste. He has no other symptoms but to keep the wider public safe and our close family, we have to do this. Obviously Boris has now put the country in an almost full lockdown, so we would have been doing it anyway. Well, we are both classed as key workers, so if I wasn't off with my hip, I would have been isolating for two weeks before going back.
Thankfully, we had the foresight to do a food shop before we locked down and my mum has been amazing dropping meat off. I have sourced a milkman who is delivering twice a week and I have alot of fresh fruit and vegetables being delivered tomorrow. So we are set for this.
I am not doing to lie, day 1 and day 2 has been TESTING. Selina is normally in nursery 3 times a week (Monday, Tuesday &, Thursday) and I have to hand it to her nursery nurses - you are amazing.
We had multiple meltdowns over not being allowed to eat crayons, not being allowed to eat foam shapes, not eating her lunch/tea, not being allowed to climb on the radiator. She climbed on the coffee table and fell off, she pee'd on the kitchen floor after her bath and then slipped in it (while we were rushing to clean it up). Needless to say, Ryan and I were EXHAUSTED. So I have decided to try and plan an activity each night ready for the next day. Tomorrow's will be salt dough painting (the shapes are in the oven as we speak). I think we will bake cakes on Thursday. Have you got any ideas what I can do on Friday?!
Today, I stuck YouTube on and we watched the Joe Wicks PE class to see what Selina thought, she loved it. The sight of her trying to do a star jump was too much! So we are all going to TRY and do it tomorrow together.
Ryan is home trying to complete his Final year project. Trying to build a device that changes AC power to DC power. My kitchen has been taken over my weird machines (I think there's an oscillator?) He's preoccupied, he's worried. The university haven't yet decided how to manage the end of year exams - there's talk of setting assignments and giving them 24 hours to complete it, it may be an online assesment but then that cannot be invigilated - why they don't just defer them to autumn, I do not know.
Anyway, I've waffled. I'll update on Day 3 tomorrow. Thank you if you made it this far. PLEASE drop me a message with any ideas of activities for a boisterous almost 17 month old who wants to eat crayons and pee on the floor!
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