i’ve been working, but chris and the girls have been busy busy. a visit to nots and tots at one of our not so close HE groups. picked up our suma order from Katy – pleased so see that it is enormous, as it was expensive! Also pleased that chris left in the dried mango slices – yum yum. SB put out that she didn;t finish the science experiment on heat loss as she had to go to the dentist. SB was fine at the dentist, and was oK with the discussion that her front teeth stick out and will need some work when she is older. [aargh to thumb sucking, if i could go back in time i would be there with the dummy] bB wouldn’t open her mouth. she decided she only will when she is f and bigger 
for an overwhelmingly confident bean she is remarkably scaredy about these type of out of family/friend things.
in the afternoon, SB did maths, handwriting, piano and violin - she is def motivated at the moment! When i got home they were recreating the heat loss experiment. weirdly paper did best, our socks obviously not v good!! BB and i had lots of stories from library books, and she played chase the A through the book. SB did some more of our viking brooch craft, and also made a paper kit viking ship i picked up from greece some time ago. SB particularly likes the idea of i-viking as a phrase! She amazed me by saying that she knew how the vikings and normandy tied up, and telling chris about it. it is in SOtW, but i don’t test recall, and make no significance to remembering, and i get a sad thrill about things remembered! We did some french altogether, with SB snuggled on my lap.
I really like an SB snuggle, and I don’t get one so often any more [oK. i still get lots, but i like LOTS] and i had a distinct moment of looking at her and seeing the lovely, charming older girl looking back at me. i cherish every second, because one day this older girl is going to leave home! i am not sure that we do the best that we can all the time, and i know my parenting and ed could be better, but i think we try hard, and love well. Though she is still emotionally up and down, i hope that this gorgeous and sensitive child is being done the best by that we possibly can. ah, i had a real mummy moment!
whilst bB went to bed, it was games time, and SB did some of the horrible histories viking sticker book with me and then chose a multiplication game. we read a bit more of the second roman mysteries book and did a made up story.
I didn’t manage to persuade Maddy on to a dummy at all, only her thumb would do. I think if the thumb is the thing then you are stuck with it. Maddy has given hers up now, having decided that she can manage without it so as to avoid braces. We never suggested that or put pressure on her to do so but other people must have said it to her and we only discovered it when she sobbed that she wanted to suck it one day.
At which point we broke it to her that as she clearly has Max’s teeth, she’d need braces anyway!!!!
You have been very busy!
I’m not convinced about the thumb sucking, bottle, teeth thing. Some of us are just going to have wonky crowded teeth that will need work to make straight. C def will. She is already a bit bothered by her front teeth and has had a comment so she knows the brace is necessary.
i think she would always have needed dental work, but the teeth are significantly drawn forward for a large overbite, and this is a thumb sucking thing – she gave up when bb learning to speak [as one of bb's first phrases was thumbout!]