King "Bear" Kong

Another playdate this morning, another lovely home-ed family. We barely saw Bean and Luke for dust - they had to be persuaded down for a toast snack, and Bean needed tearing away with the promise of another playdate so I could get him to school to see his other friend S before she went to see her grandparents for two whole months! And I thought we'd been away a long time :D Asked preschool to take a photo of the two of them together, and to see if Bean could be persuaded to make a card for her to take with her along with the photo :)

When Bean got home there was a letter waiting for him. Excited, much?! It was a drawing and a story by Boo, to which Bean, visibly delighted, said "Wow! I love it!!" We're going to need a special place to put his penpal bits and pieces :D

This is the Bear doing his climbing thing this morning. He spent his morning climbing up and down their stairs, squeaking, attacking plug sockets, and keeping me and Virginie on our toes!

Steve went back to the GP today as his leg got worse again overnight, there's an angry looking very painful red bump on his lower leg. GP saw it and looked hugely relieved to give the diagnosis of thrombophlebitis - a clot in a smaller vein, not a deep vein. Not such a serious problem! Still a sore problem but not a risk of killing him. So that's ok. Basically the man-flu of the DVT world. (Said in love!!)