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snow!

Posted on January 24, 2007 by | 2 comments

not enough to cover a hobbit’s toes though.

bad nights sleep. BB woke early. must get this sleeping lark sorted.

today we did do HE – some singapore maths, addition and subtraction across the 10 in tens and units. SOme getty and dubay – trying to adjust SB’s pen position so it is more comfortable, and getting her to start at top not bottom of letter. Some education city.

We also baked some brownies – ostensibly for melrose, but the top fell off as we got out of tray, so not sure re burnt offerings? The jelly didn’t set either btw.

We went outside and measured up the place for the playhouse. we are getting one of these in the blue and white with heart design shutters mode. Sb played with the snow until her fingers froze.

We did a bit of looking at lions, read our various books, looked at their habitat etc, and downloaded some stuff from enchanted learning. well, the enchanted learning was a pain, cos we haven’t used it for ages, could remember our login details, or email address used – so much palavering. Did it in the end. SB did a bit of reading to me. She did some fiddling about on nick jr and playing
BB and i played marble runs, education city and kneebouncers website. also had some animals pairs cards, so spotted the animals and made them families. SB joined in too.

Anyway, BB has been a pain this eve at sleeping, Chris just taken her up to try again. I haven’t been able to sew as fingers still numb and tingley [not too bad now though] and SB wants a bunny tail on the fantastic fleecy sleepsuit that Katy made.

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Words of Wisdom

Posted on January 23, 2007 by | 5 comments

 

SB today:

‘Daddy, you know you say you get tired later on in the afternoon, well, if you went to bed an hour earlier, then you’d have an hours more energy for playing with us.

And if you went to bed 2 hours ealier you have TWO more hours energy.

AND if you went to bed when me and BB go then you have LOADS of energy all day’

 

So, on that note, I think I’m going to bed. If I don’t faff I could be in bed before 11, which is pretty much unheard of.

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Ahh…..

Posted on January 23, 2007 by | 1 comment

 

The beans play blog post snap it seems.

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grr to blog titles

Posted on January 22, 2007 by | 2 comments

got home from work to find SB and Chris engaged in the longest ever maths sum [46-18 I think!!]. I don’t think they had spent all 90 minutes on that one sum though! There had been a bit of a lie in and some painting and some tidying I believe, the a romp to the doctors about BB’s eczema-ish dribble chin, for which we have a steroid and antifungal cream. She’s had it on and off for a while, but just looking work at the moment.

Oh, and BB – what on earth are we going to do at Melrose about her potty training – it is going to be a nightmare unless we persuade her to use nappies, and that seems very retrograde. Though today has not been a good day!

Actually, for SB I think we need to work on number bonds again for a bit, as its 6-4 of it that often gets her.

Anyway, BB then went for her pneumovacc and SB and I finished the grape and spare redcurrent jelly. She then did lots of colouring in of her roman SOTW sheets. including a map of roman control at julius caesar. i remembered about our roman emperor book, and read from that about julius[we had already done the sotw chapter] she – thank goodness – could tell me rome fought cathage – wayhay – as she did the hannibal maze!

She wants to learn about lions this week – so rootled through the shelves to find likely lion books. I was wondering whether we could have a proto try at a baby lapbook??? [a real home-edder!!!!] partly cos I was so impressed at Kath and M’s. I am going to try and sort the desk for her tomorrow.
She has done some listening to little toe, and showing BB various websites. BB has been gorgeous, mostly running about, dancing [weeing] and had an early restorative bath to get her to bedtime! She really is adorable, even when she wee’s on you! [oopsie]
SB had a slightly later bedtime, as we did more of that jungala ello, which we are both finding fun. [design and technology!]

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your classic home ed shot number 1!

Posted on January 22, 2007 by | 2 comments

maths chez haricot!

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lovely weekend

Posted on January 21, 2007 by | Leave a comment

the SOTP team stepped our way, and we had a lovely time. The children acted as always best friends, the girls disappearing with made up play and real game playing. i particularly loved the use of the camera tripod for an igloo/teepee for the dolls, and the picnics. real squashed kiwi on the bed not so enchanting – possibly why we were informed by letter!

Oh, and a good point to mention was that in the game, the father grunted ‘go away I’m reading’ ? true to life

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B and J got on like a house on fire. Both doing creditable stabs at each others name. lots of sharing [and not so sharing] but def friends.

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we looked at some of each others books. chatted [or read] and chilled. Sad to see you go. BB threw the biggest loss of control of her short life so far – very impressive, all over charlie and lola!
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Afterwards a manic tidyup, SB and some fun with the jungletopia ello that has been waiting an opening. we read soem more ORT

piccies to be added when flickr catches up!

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it IS lovely!

Posted on January 21, 2007 by | 3 comments

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Originally uploaded by Scrumbledelicious.

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catching up on flickr

Posted on January 21, 2007 by | 6 comments

I had stopped flickring because i was so fed up with the flaky importr. I did like that it had smart sets, new sets, group allocations etc all sussed, but it stopped every 3 i put up!

Am using juploadr, and although it doesn’t do anything clever, it is at least putting them up there. There are some real jewels amongst the 200 odd! A particularly grotesque one of me as elephant woman, and some gorgeous ones of SB in chinese princess mode, and BB just being adorable.

And in this present batch going up, is a stunning one of Fran and Josie – I might even remember to flickr mail you Merry when it gets up!!

Next lot will be this weeks, and a blog about our lovely weekend.

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AND SOME HOME ED!

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Thanks ALison- how well i know the bible

Posted on January 21, 2007 by | 3 comments
You know the Bible 77%!

 

Wow! You are truly a student of the Bible! Some of the questions were difficult, but they didn’t slow you down! You know the books, the characters, the events . . . Very impressive!

Ultimate Bible Quiz
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hoping friends stay on the path

Posted on January 19, 2007 by | 4 comments

As they are arriving late, and it gets dark round here – mind you, they are used to rural!

I’m beginning to feel a bit better in the hand/wrist dept – not so swollen. got fed up with sausages for fingers. Saw the rheumatologist, who suggested an up and down thing for 2-3 weeks, but should just go. good oh!

Whilst I was at work, the beans went to PBEO and learnt about birds. BB has been going on about birds intermittently ever since. Difficult to settle when they got back [mid aft], so they argued over every toy [and they had picked up a few in the morning to argue over] and swapped them every 5 seconds. SB couldn’t settle to anything either. Finally she did some nick jr and moved onto education city. Apparently spanish will be available in a months time! BB desperately jealous of edu city – and although found a number of nice sites – and tried the poisson rouge recommendation from Katy – they just distracted SB, whilst BB was mad keen to do education city too. SO have another trial version now running with BB nursery. I am not paying for the nursery just so she doesn’t shriek! I will put a BB list though in the sidebar. SB is excited that on monday her selection for education city will change – she is such a daft but gorgeous girl to be excited by it!
A colleague from work came round – bringing choccies to make me feel better. SB and BB coloured for him and generally shew off. I must integrate more with work, so that it seems a better deal. He is one of my favourite colleagues though, and always makes me smile.
Oh, the other thing I have done is started some grape and redcurrant jelly, but lost the jelly bag, so rigged up some not-quite-good-enough-for-the job alternative. Oh well, it will just be cloudy. Home grown grapes though! [and redcurrants that have been sitting in the freezer for yonks]

Bath time now, and girls have been fed. I will make us an aubergine, mushroom and paneer curry [yum] for our tea. the ‘off the pathers’ are eating on the way down, so we will eat while SB is staying up [watching attenborough natural science progs and little house probably]

I have got guests coming excitement, so no good for settling down either – do you think we should make a bit of room for them in this bombsite??

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