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So life’s moving on, my trip to Florida was almost a month ago now! We’re also over two weeks into our Scottish summer holidays and so far my tactic of having one activity planned each day is working a treat. So far we’ve been swimming, visited friends for lunch, shopped for school uniform, had our first ever sleepover and attended a birthday party and an anniversary meal. This week Erin’s off to the cinema to see Shrek (I have been promised a review by her aunty…) and an overnight stay to Granny’s, keeping busy seems to be the key to a successful summer holidays.

Erin’s hit that stage where she immitates everything I do (she pretends to be on the computer checking emails *cough*, puts make up on etc etc) which is both amusing and sometimes concerning.

For example one night I checked in on her in bed and she was close to tears. She said she was “stressed out” because people keep phoning and emailing her and the dog keeps barking and she just couldn’t relax! I played along and told her to shut off her computer, unplug her phone and tell the dog to stop barking. She promptly told me she was just pretending and that she’s practising being a mum!

Oh dear that would be a parenting fail then, and perhaps a cue to switch off more!

During this imitation play she has also pretended to go to work at ‘pokers’ – I don’t seem to be able to shake this idea of hers that my job is playing poker?? In fact I don’t think I’ve been to poker for well over a month! Oh well, another parenting fail!