Ever get those days you'd like to do over again?

After all the entertaining we've done over the last few weeks Caleb's finding this house-arrest for the sake of Elodie (and our sanity) rather mind-numbing, and he's definitely unimpressed by us abandoning him to do all this boring painting (and we haven't even started on his room yet.) Yesterday I did a lot of fobbing him off/keeping him happy with snacks because he didn't have a nap in the day, despite more disturbed night sleep. But I feel we shouldn't use food as a substitute for sleep too often, so today we pulled out all the stops and kept him as busy as possible to avoid those sleep-deprivation-induced tantrums. So we made jellyfish (that started out as Octopi!) and did a bit of painting. And he and Mark read lots of Dr. Seuss books together. Also this afternoon we put some batteries in R2-D2 and made Caleb's day- he was an unexpected hit with Elodie too!



So poor Mark had to finish painting over a veeeery loooong 12-hour period, but it's finally done and now our white hall and landing practically glow- all the cream/white gloss looks positively dirty in contrast but we're not even going to go there!




Now tell me: what do you see?
(Tee hee!)