A Puddle Day

Both in weather and visitors.

SB was excited all morning about the imminent puddle visitors, and helped tidy up nicely. [after all, she said, we didn't want Josie to eat the sparkly bits]

We then settled down with a bit of reading, and read the bit about greek gods in the ancient history book from usbourne. We also flicked through the usbourne garden wildlife book [is usbourne our main home-ed source series!!] Did some mental maths – number bonds and additions and subtractions. SB has got now into the habit of thinking in sweeties for this ‘mummy, if I had 5 sweeties and went out of the room, and you ate 2, I would have 3 left etc’. She is much more likely to be accurate when imaginary sweeties involved as well!

Finally persuaded her to get dressed [ a relief, cos pjamas are her favourites], and agreed to plait or ponytail her hair – rather unwisely said to the number of bands she could find – 7! SO then photographed my hair creation. She felt it looked a bit roman??

Merry and the girls arrived so definitely chaos. This time they had a few false starts before getting going – mostly due to SB being quite clear she wanted everyone to play her game of mummies and daddies – dressed as fairies. She couldn’t be disuaded, and to save the peace Maddy and Fran agreed – nice girls. We managed to provide lunch in a more timely fashion today, and finished with bun icing and eating – always appreciated. the sprinkles went everywhere of course.
We were also treated to the vision of Josie crawling – BB unlikely to follow suit, but demonstrated instead her disre to be standing at all times. Also treated to some nice cakes – thankyou Merry – while we put the world to rights!

Seeing Merry always makes me feel more urgent about planning and executing our home ed. I think we will simmer ideas and aim to start with the school year with the normals idea, and a few organised themes that we can [present to SB as alighted on]. Also get some things in the house that can be used for experiments, as she is keen.

Afterwards SB chose some sticker jigsaw books and amazed me by sounding out and correctly saying far more words than I thought she could – these were largely 3 letter simple words, but definitely on the road to reading!

After bath she found my book about death and dying which I was planning to slip in at some point. She off and on has a fascination with the subject, and I can’t help but feel that we may need to deal with death in the next year or so [hopefully longer]. this wasn’t really a good bedtime read, as when I left her she then started crying about death, so daddy cuddled her whilst i fed BB. The book is actually very nicely done, but not an ideal bedtime read!

Now I have to do some education – a CD rom to watch before tomorrow. However, whilst doing it, uploading last years photos onto flikr gradually.