Harry xxx

A day in the life of living with Harry. 

Let’s take Thursday 31st October, Halloween, seems appropriate. 

Harry awoke me at 05:50, he’s an early morning dude, I get that. Every morning I wake up breathing I think is a win. 

Half awake and needing the loo I practically fell to the floor when Harry rugby tackled me round the legs. I’d forgotten our early morning cuddle ritual. Harry does love a cuddle and he hugs you with every essence of his soul. 

To him he was showing me affection, to me we nearly had a catastrophe. Harry lives in the now and hasn’t yet grasped consequences of actions. This is the cause of a lot of accidents, but it’s never from a place of malice. 

Harry has the biggest, kindest, heart and feels things deeply, but you have to earn your place there. Once in, you are there for life, whether you like it or not. 

We were off to the opening of Smyths Toys Superstores. There’s a strong possibility I was more excited than the boys even though they’d saved their pocket money up all month and even done extra chores for pennies. The both of them had excellent parents evening results so had also been rewarded for that. Note to self, I must stop asking the teacher if she is sure she’s talking about my children. Harry is a joy to have in the class and a natural born leader as well as protector apparently. Actually, I do agree with that! 

So we picked up the Westie Besties and got to Smyths nice and early. 

They were giving out toys, balloons and beanies outside and Harry walked past. I called him to come back but he said he didn’t want anything. I advised him that if anyone is giving out anything free, even a bogie, take it and then decide if you want to keep it or gift it to someone else. Other mothers in the queue and the shop workers seemed to feel this was sound advice, but maybe set the bar higher than a bogie. Okay, I hadn’t had my coffee and it was the first thing that came to mind. 

Ollie found what he wanted pretty instantly and totted it all up in his head, he does love his maths! He was recently elected for school council after I suggested he change his speech from wanting extra maths classes.

Harry always finds it overwhelming. He’s extremely good with money and doesn’t like to spend it, but he also worries about changing his mind. He was pretty sure he wanted a Rio Madrid football and a Bobble Head, but in the last aisle he found a big, cuddly husky and it was love at first sight. Harry is a sucker for cuddly toys and collects them. He calls them his family and he looks after them incredibly well being sure to tuck them in at night. 

We were just at the til getting ready to pay when something odd caught the corner of my eye. 

Tap on my arm from Harry and he confirmed I’d just seen someone shoplifting. 

Well Harry wasn’t having that. He made sure all the staff in the local area knew exactly who the perpetrator was and what he’d done. He wasn’t that surreptitious about it, but it wasn’t happening on his watch! 

I’ve had to talk to Harry about allowing his teachers to deal with problems at school and not to take matters into to his own hands. He recently homed in on the nutcracker (named so for obvious reasons) who’d upset a lot of his friends both physically and mentally, but hopefully he has now passed the baton to his teacher. 

Harry would currently like to be a dog handler in the police as well as a footballer or a YouTuber of course!

Later on that day we picked up the Westie Besties again to meet up with another delicious family for a Halloween get together. 

Harry wasn’t sure dressing up would suit his street cred. Once Harry has an idea in his mind he is hard to budge. A positive quality but not when you’re on the opposite side. He settled for Deadpool which he also wore to World Book Day, luckily they thought it was Spider-Man. 

After a bit of merriment we took the children trick or treating. For years I thought this was trickle treating. 

They knocked on the doors and all showed off their wonderful manners by only taking one sweet and saying thank you however I heard Harry saying 

“Please don’t kidnap me” to each person who opened their door.

Lee assured him they would soon hand him back if that did happen! 

One poor person took a while to open their door so Harry naturally asked him if he was having a poo. 

So there you have it. Our little Harry. Currently being assessed for Hyperactivity Disorder for the extra energy, a rollercoaster of a ride, but strong, kind, protective, sensitive and extremely funny! 

We are truly blessed! I can already hear my husband saying “you’re welcome!” 

Xxxx