my first under a minute!!!
unquieter isn’t a word, is it????? Quiddler really annoys me, so why do I do it?
SB finally getting dressed, no pyjama day though, as have been weblanding – in partic making up rhythms and music, but some of the games as well. Also the romans bit, as that was on of the ‘I wonder why’ books I read in an abridged version last night.
Still NAK-ing though
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Not the best weather for outdoor skating, but West Yorks home ed trip to the ice cube in Leeds.
SB enjoyed it, and luckilly chris was there too. I tentatively went on, and fell over! After breaking foot, wrist and 2 ribs in a kids soft play area in the summer, I have really lost confidence, so quickly came off the ice. BB needed a feed anyway. Great fun was had by the confident! The West Yorks is a nice group, and v friendly to rare attendees like me. We are going to its Viking meet in March.
Returning home we did a few pages of singapore maths K 2A [easy] and some sticker maths. Also grrrered at the irritating hopsalot on the starter maths – well I did, as SB likes it. Read and discussed ‘I wonder why my tummy rumbles’ and SB played with Happy Street.
I’m quite impressed by the amount of home-ed there [obviously sofa based this afternoon], as BB had an off day. In fact this feed [ I am NAK-ing] is the first decent one today, as we have been latching on, stopping and screaming incessantly, so WTL index nosediving earlier. It is just so messy! Actually can feel sanity restoring the longer she feeds – may be human by end!
AAhhhh BB asleep. SB still messing with dinner rather than eating it though. Return to RL
[edit by chris] We bumped into another Puddlers as well at the skating *waves* to Kath M
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On house moving, our buyers have commissioned a full survey – taking place on wed, so better tidy up again. I can’t think there will be a problem.
Our sellers have rung about the negotiateable things. I was really surprised, as they are giving all carpets and curtains bar 1, some garden tools etc, and v reasonable prices for some furniture they wont have room for -which we might go for as the hospital gives me a ?500 furniture budget.
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this actually tues, but funny. SB likes rhymes and poems, so we make up limericks together. When we’ve done a few, I throw in one that she can make a ‘naughty’ rhyme to for a giggle. [ps i am not v good at them] she gets to say last word in lines 4 and 5 in this game
there was a young man named Chris
who often was given a kiss
He drinks a lot of tea
so needs to do a ……….
I was expectng ‘wee’ but instead we got p***, so I think she got the rhyme rules muddled up, and I got a complete shock, as nether of us ever uses that word! Chris just roared with laughter.
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Wonders will never cease.
i think after all the stresses of jobs, new babies, selling houses etc, it is nice to settle back into being us again. BB a fully paid up family member, so now part of the routine. In fact, she is totally gorgeous. She has a great interest in her hands, can hold on to rattles. Finds her playgym so exciting that she sounds like a steamtrain with all the huffung and puffing [she isn't the quietest of breathers - probably those 20 chins!] She smiles and coos, and loves being able to watch SB, though looks abit nervous if she gets too close – those python hugs.
SB is happier now she is getting a more normal amount of attention from us [a lot] and because of it, perversely, is happier to play on her own. We got the happy street out earlier in the week, and make up lots of stories for the people in it. She usually likes me to start, saying she can’t make them up, but is then quite happy to tell me I’m wrong and take over. I call this our drama sessions! to build on the shadows thing, we read together our DK book about seasons etc, and she seems happy with the spinning earth around the sun, and was concentrating on what was in the book. She does want me to make a circular inca calendar tomorrow though – a ‘gery’ big one please. We did some letter sounds – not any blending though, and a bit of writing. We also made houses with the lego, and decide to make one with lots of windows for the summer to let the breeze go through, and a bumpy roof like a castel [crenellations] [ I may have to buy more lego if she starts demanding turrets!] We excercised our inner domestic goddesses by making double choc and oat muffins – yummy. A bit of leappadding and cbeebies website, and our day was done. There was negligible fusses today either. I loved it.
However, thanks to Merry – who has opened a massive world of what if……. in my brain – I spent most of the day unsettled and miserable from a dream, so needed lots of cuddles, which luckilly I got.
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This follows on really with Nics post on Monster and Teeny [very unfair titles for 2 gorgeous children!! - or is it the parents???????]
we have also done a fair bit of thinking at melrose, its led to me starting to write a list of resources, subject headings, and now am going to think of different topics, what we have on them and what excursions etc, so a sort of charlotte mason approach, as I will try and kick it off with stories – not quite FIAR, but that kind of idea. [TBH I just didn't like how the FIAR manual read, rather than the idea].
We will also do other things – such as singapore maths, phonics reading and i think we will getty and dubay. keep going with german, based around Muzzy, formalise the music a little bit now, and do some art apprectation as well as hands on – seeing Merry’s resources there was v helpful!
What will we get over time having been to Melrose? I liked the berenstain bears science [as SB keen on Dr Seuss] , and if I’d known Katy was selling it, I would have bought it myself. Got DK books, but will also visit sonlight when I have an address for them for that people book. Have also got the usbourne time traveller from ebay. Sonlight can provide the getty and dubay as well, and perhaps the history of the world series, which I also think is great.
To start with, so that we can see what we do, and how it works, I think we will have a loose timetable – especially when I get more time off and chris and I share more. Since I can grab photocopier at work when on call, I think we will photocopy pages to put in folders, and try and have a monthly curriculum that we dip in and out of, but have sorted resources in advance. As yet, this is all wild and woolly, and hopefully will metamorphosize into something beautiful that suits SB’s learning needs, yet also doesn’t encourage our chaotic approach to life.
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We went to fun parties on sat and tues with my postnatal group, then 3 already in march. What fun!!
Had another CP exposure on Sat, so waiting and seeing.
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SB was very pleased that she got a medal today for being a good girl at nursery. We have a piccie of her with it [CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS]. notice that she is still being Abi [purposely]
Bad news is that she has been invited to a party on the same day that we arranged hers. so either none of her nursery friends will come, And she will be miserable, or we will have to move it. serves us right for being slow with invites.
Had a pressie for BB in the post – a rather lovely babygym. SB thought it v wsteful as we have one already [phew, we are instilling some notion of frugality] and have a nice photo of that too .[CHRIIIIIIIIIIS]
since otjer people’s melrose piccies up, and we haven’t received any objections, I think we should put up ours. [CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS – after all he is on the ‘puter upstairs with the pics!!!
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BB had second vax today, and weighed in at 17lb 4 oz at 12 weeks. Still in proportion, but back breaking! Better learn to walk early. Georgeously healthy.
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