Mistletoe and Bathwater

I covertly filmed ThingOne and ThingTwo for six minutes yesterday as ThingOne tried to teach ThingTwo a song. ThingTwo saw me, ThingOne was oblivious. I edited down to one and a half minutes of their (mainly ThingOne's) weirdness.

In days gone by this would be creepy and frowned upon. It probably still is.

ThingOne seems rather keen on Mistletoe and Wine.

Ambitions

ThingOne asked me about university this evening as she and ThingTwo ate tea. I explained that it's somewhere you go when you're 18 if you want to continue studying, and you can choose what you want to learn.
ThingOne: "I want to learn about the elements."
Me: "Well, that's Chemistry. Mummy did some of that. She did Biochemistry and Genetics. Genetics is about DNA."
ThingOne: "That's what I want to do. Biochemistry and Genetics."
ThingTwo: "What's easiest?"

Happy Birthday Anne!

ThingTwo wrote a message to Anne earlier in the week, with me and ThingOne telling her which letter came next on the last bit of the message.

The 'biro jgmsy' bit ThingTwo wrote herself. Not sure what it means, but it has since become a favourite phrase of the kids.

iBlog

Maybe I'll use this blog more often now there's an iOS Blogger app.

Delivery tracking glee

I love watching UPS (and similar) parcels wing their way around the world to me, even when (as in this case) I'm in no real hurry to receive the item. It's an aspect of the internet age that gives me (ridiculously) great pleasure. The example below gives me an extra bit of pleasure as I was in Eindhoven last week.

I especially like with some couriers I can see that it's been delivered to home when I'm at work, click on a link and see Anne's signature from when she signed for it. I then email her and say "I see you signed for my delivery" and freak out my naive Lincolnshire wife with my magic abilities.