Yesterday, was library day, but before that managed to be organised enough to have children dressed, breakfasted etc. in time to sit down and start on the Getty and Dubay handwriting book B. So did that and then checked up on what books we had out, found most of them, decided which ones to take back, which ones to keep or renew, got grumpy as one card wasn’t with the other two. And as usual just about made it on time for storytime. Which I keep waiting for SB to decide she is bored with, seeing as it’s aimed at under fves, isn’t really that well attended usually, and most of those going or 2-3 yo.
But she likes it, and as it’s round the corner, we keep going. BB was rather cute, she has worked out she can carry her book bag by sliding it up her arm to her shoulder – rather than just dragging it along the ground. So she proudly walked along, going on about carrying her books.
For the first time as well really, BB found herself some books she wanted to take home but it did involve herremoving rather a lot of the books from the shelves/boxes and piling them up. Found a nice one about ‘xray book of abcient buildings’ and one about rivers that has some practical project ideas, which we may have a go at some – though some are rather complicated. Sb had an eclectic collection – including 2 board books for toddlers (why?) and a Rainbow Faries or Jewel Faries or whatever they are called book. She’s seen them before at other peoples houses, but not read one before. But it looks like she will manage it, so I guess it might start a bit of a ‘thing’.
So, home, to peruse a few books and have lunch. after lunch BB got increasling grumpy, and annoying towards SB, when we sat down on the sofa, she clambered about on me grumping for bit and then fell asleep pretty rapidly sort of dangling off me. Well she had been up until about midnight the night before.
Afternoon passed with SB doing a bit more maths from MPH 1B, we are slowly approaching the end, but never seem to quite get there. We went into the garden for a while, I moslty hacked back a lot of the very overgrown fig tree that gets in the way once it comes into leaf and shades the Greenhouse to much. The hacking is the easy bit, removing the piles of hacked stuff is the tedious bit. Sb was sort of helping, but mostly clambering about on the swings.
BB woke up, we sat for a bit in the sun with a book reading with SB, till she was perky enough, i finished up clearing up, and then came in to cook, whilst they played around for a bit more outside. They came in, we tidied the playroom and they watched a bit of Bob the Builder which is BB’s real TV obsession until tea was ready. After dinner and gettign ready for bed we all sat down on the sofa and watched a bit of one of the ‘Natural history of the British Isles’ DVDs. We must have got pretty near to the end, but we all three had dozed off, when Helen got back from work about 20 minutes later (it was late- about 8.30pm) we were al snoozing away- ah well that was an easy single handed bedtime. :-) So me and Helen settled down to watch the season finale of Battlestar Galactica.
H did do blog for today, but then lost it, so it’ll have to wait for another time.
