It’s a Saturday, so we started with crumpets and Thomas the Tank Engine in our onesies. It’s a good way to start.

Build the marble run, Edward counting the pieces and telling me which colours we should put where, cries of ”can I test it yet?”
Then we do some tidying, get out the flash cards and have ten minutes picking out the words Edward can read and flexing the grey matter over words he can’t (he can’t read many words yet but slowly, slowly)
Finish tidying, let the police in (not the band, an actual officer. If it had been The Police, I may telling you a different story) A few days after Christmas, some clever clogs decided to tip our lovely 3 wheeled Reliant Rialto onto it’s side, ripping off the drivers side wing mirror and pouring oil and fuel all over the path and road. Besides the loss of fuel, oil and a wing mirror the car was fine so we put it down to festive idiocy and moved on. A week later we were woke by the police at 3.30 am to tell us that yet again our car had been tipped. This time, it had also been moved down the street, possibly carried or dragged (Reliant’s are fiberglass so very lightweight) and placed on the passenger side. More damage this time too, the other wing mirror has been ripped off and the passenger door handle has been punched through the fiberglass so we can not open the passenger door. It made it unsafe to drive until we can fix it and with Brett’s current work load that could be some time. So he found a motorbike on eBay – his preferred model and cc, shot up to Bradford for the day and came home with said bike.  Awesome.
So he’s quite pleased with this bike, it’s in great condition, was a good price and gets him out on rides again which he loves. It will be perfect to get him to work and back and after a stressful day he can take himself off for a ride to clear his head. Again, awesome.
What wasn’t so awesome, was finding it lying on it’s side on Friday morning. We have CCTV, purely because we’ve had idiots try to steal his motorbikes in the past, so he checked the footage from Thursday night/early Friday and found a gang of youths coming onto our driveway, admiring the bike, breaking the steering lock and attempting to steal it. So the police visited to get a statement and a copy of the footage. Edward loved it though as he had a policeman visit us. It’s obviously bothered him too, he has made it clear that the ‘bad guys’ need telling off and arresting. This is the one shitty thing about our area, there seems to be a LOT of this kind of thing happening and not just to us.
Luckily we had the CCTV really.

We left Brett giving his statement, and I took Edward to visit his Nanna. He played at being a Pirate with his own treasure chest and had a squidge of some putty as his Poppa was putting in a new pane of glass. I love that he’s a builder, Edward gets to see so many different skills and techniques from him and occasionally try them out  – perfect for a boy who can’t seem to keep his hands to himself!

We finished the day as we do many days, dinner, PJ’s and Mythbusters. We love it, Edward particularly loves the explosions and stunts, whilst we find the science fascinating.

Then I read Edward The Gruffalo’s Child as he snuggled down with his huge mountain of cuddly toys. In his own bed, without tears or tantrums. That’s a big deal for a boy who just over a month ago would only go to bed in my bed.