{"id":161,"date":"2007-05-28T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/jordanjordanshannon-and-craig\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:16:10","slug":"jordanjordanshannon-and-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/jordanjordanshannon-and-craig\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan,Jordan,Shannon and Craig&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that I acquired 3 extra bodies in my household, Another 7 year old, a 9 year old and a 5(ish) year old. None of which I am related to but were all quite at home with me and my own 7year old baking cakes and cookies ALL DAY!<\/p>\n<p>I am exhausted but have enough biscuits and goodies to last a month.<\/p>\n<p>Craig the eldest of the tribe at 9 and has ADHD and dyslexia. He loves the fact that unlike at his school we don&#8217;t care about he&#8217;s &#8220;difficulties\/differences&#8221; however you want to put it and he joins with us with whatever we&#8217;re doing. But boy, I thought I could talk but I don&#8217;t have a patch on this kid, and some of the stuff that falls out of his mouth is hilarious, like the time he fell and broke his leg on an ant hill, and the other time he hit his head and it bled and bled till he was dead&#8230;.obviously all untrue but said with such conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Next there is Shannon, 7years and 9 months and the nine month makes a difference because that puts her nearly exactly 4 months and a WHOLE school year older than my Jordan. She is adorable but being bought up in a house with nothing but boys she also knows how to play the lads against each other really well. That girl is going to be a man eater when she gets older and fair play to her.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is Jordan number 2. Jordan number 2 is Shannon&#8217;s little brother and he is 5 or there abouts, we actually cant figure out how old he is as every time I ask him I get a different answer!<\/p>\n<p>Finally amongst all the new faces is &#8220;The Blonde Kid&#8221; or the newly christened Jordan number 1. Jordan is loving the fact that all these children have moved in near where we live and that he has a mom cool enough to let all the local waifs and strays spend the day in our house, and not only do they come and play we do cool stuff like make salt dough and bake cakes and paint stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The blonde kid is also loving the fact that there is a &#8220;girl&#8221; coming to play. A real life girl who sings and dances and plays them all off against each other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BUT she&#8217;s not his girlfriend..really she&#8217;s not!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that I acquired 3 extra bodies in my household, Another 7 year old, a 9 year old and a 5(ish) year old. None of which I am related to but were all quite at home with me and my own 7year old baking cakes and cookies ALL DAY! I am exhausted but have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/jordanjordanshannon-and-craig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jordan,Jordan,Shannon and Craig&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-2B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1565,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/loving-my-boy\/","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":0},"title":"Loving my boy","date":"March 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I can very rarely get TBK in front of a camera any more - well willingly anyway. 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