went to the nots and tots today, the girls really enjoy it. BB in particular loves recordering! she was most jealous that L and E got to do 2 recorder sessions! both did french, but SB mainly. and they had fun making janus faces, which lucky relatives are going to get as presents this weekend! [must find baby A's present!!] it was particularly nice as they didn’t have to rush off to a different town for gym. chris is wondering whether to move bB’s gym session, but it would be difficult.
ANother session requiring moving is apparently brownies. we specifically went into the monday group as it fitted around ballet, and the wed group clashed with judo. both groups are being brought forward 1/2 an hour. this means that ballet and brownies directly compete [as she has gone up a ballet group and would have a 15 mins crosssover anyway] and brownies and judo doesn’t, but there is no space in that brownie pack. aarghh.
at home chris put up 2 new coffee tables, one of which is BB’s desk – aah. i don’t understand people who don;t love tables!! sb did some piano practice.
when i got home, bb and i made soap. sb not so keen too. this time we made a thin layer of coloured soap, used fimo shape cutters to cut it out, and then made a translucent soap and popped them in. fab. more presents for the rellies!! [though i nearly died when i saw chris's soap receipt, so i am not saying that this is a particularly cheap way of getting soap...]
a dr who – where bb announced from the start how to kill slitheen!! and bed nearly finished the The Assassins of Rome: Roman Mysteries 4 (The Roman Mysteries)
We have (including 2 for outdoors) 4 main tables all with 4 chairs each. Did I mention we are a family of 4?? That does not include 3 small ones for the kids indoor rooms and for their playhouse, or the table I use as a desk as I prefer it to a desk, or the end tables or coffee table. Yes–I may just need professional help!
Next time L and BB will get to do special recorder together, so that’s something to look forward to! I’m going to try to set up more recorder pairs this term and see if that works better, along with a big ‘littlies’ music session.
she will be ecstatic, as she goes on and on about recorder!! and i heard quite a number of times how she only did one!
Chloe liked the bells.
Did SB? I think she said they hurt her ears
We’ll be doing more anyway as long as Katy doesn’t mind us using them, but it would be nice to know so that I can judge how much to use them!
she did. she does say a lot of things hurt her ears, but i think it is a kinda hangover from when she had a really bad ear infection and perforated ear drum years ago!
We have some water flutes too
You tune them by adding more or less water – they’re a bit more mellow than the bells (and than recorders).
That sounds fun but slightly more effort than I think I’ll be able to put in this week. I might bring the small Boomwhackers but even they are quite big and it doesn’t seem fair on the others for the three girls to have too much fun!!