work seems to be getting the better of me, but then, i have been doing A LOT of it! i have, in the middle somewhere, managed to do some connecting with the girls. SB has been racing through her maths and handwriting, and doing a bit of piano. Me being so busy, we have been rather less violining that we should. she has had a weird change for the worst in positioning her hands, so we have been working on that. she is making better and better tone though. both girls seems to have had a real hama fest, and SB has been most inventive with her patterns.
We have also done some much needed tidying. well, their bedroom and the playroom, but it has taken AGES! SB has been particularly loving to BB. today she bought her a kinder egg and made her an easter bunny trail to find it. yesterday she tried to make BB a hama dinosaur [BB threw it on floor mind you].
oh, after being somewhat temperamental on sat [ i had had enough] we did thing of girls choice sun afternoon when i wasn’t being busy at work. SB chose a tesco mini chemistry kit, which is identical to the mini chemistry kit i got from over the road last year. it is quite duff. mostly because it actually doesn’t have most of the ingredients in it [unlike other kits] so i don’t recommend it. having 2 though [as i kept last years] made it easy as both girls did in tandem, and also i had sourced the iodine tincture last year etc! So we had great fun. our bean from the growing science has finally made its way through the maze – hooray!
New tent still standing out in the garden. i hope it gets dry enough at some point to pack away!
SB been playing loads of chess. she really is enjoying it. i hope she is reading some of the book to, but i guess the best way to learn is just to play lots. i have a solitaire chess on this laptop that has a beginners mode, which is so easy she mostly draws on it, so is happy with that.
the last but if the amazon order arrived – some readers for SB – third grade detectives, magic school bus and DK 4′s, and some baby science books for BB. SB totally ecstatic. BB is good at comparative maths, and less ecstatic since her pile smaller!!!
ROFL at BB being good at comparative maths!