1. that all the book series i look forward to reading with sb she does with chris! they have read the narnia, the second george book, uncle albert and are now onto the The Dark is Rising Sequence: 
2. that i am trying to maintain this blog, when chris does all the he, all the living of life with the girls and doesn’t. hmm, actually, don’t answer that one
so anyway, to this week. well i guess exciting things have happened, like sb did her judo grading and got her next belt [yellow/white] whilst i was at work. they all had a fun latinetc – whilst i was at work. ok, i was on a course, and a really good course, but actually would have preferred to be at home! we have done a fair bit of evening stuff together though, reading, watching Walking with Cavemen [DVD] [2003]
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today – although obviously been to work – we have done loads together, mostly in the making mess half of home ed! we have baked cakes – bb and i made cinnamon cupcakes [yum] and sb made choc chip cupcakes, and then they decorated them for village fete tomorrow. SB has done a partic fab job. they also each made a poster on recycling for said village fete, are going to enter some fimo creations too. they have been playing beautifully with each other as well at the moment. i do so love them both.
but we did get going, and went to thetford. TBH, i feel nervous about cycling after all this time. this prob is silly [after all, i survived cycling in london for 7 years!], but i wanted to wibble and wobble off road, where we could stop in the shade, and find something interesting to comment on and do, and no sense that we had to get from a to b or go round something. and where if my unfitness was too dreadful, that i didn’t need to feel mortified!
it was very sandy, and very sandy means very easy to skid and slip. and so they did! alot! so we did about 50m at a time. no worries that i might look foolish or out of breath there was there! by the time i had got on bike, i was off, hugging a wailing child. SB had got new pedals with clippy bits, and she didn’t like them. BB at least didn’t mind falling into the sand. luckilly chris brought tools with him, as SB managed to turn her wheel right round and wedge it with one fall, and bb managed to push her wheel and handlebar out of alignment with another 
– about the beginnings of russia, which actually sb enjoyed, and then 
, which they both like. and just general following conversations – carrying on some they had had yesterday with chris about the big bang and laws of physics, and then some relating to illness and death. lots of cuddling [always good]
, so i got a 
to do with BB. BB was extremely careful, and didn’t spill any, and we reinforced the chemical thing! she was also finished first and went off cycling with chris. SB had to shake some card in water until it disintegrated, so that took 20mins of consistent shaking – i was impressed by her stamina! but then finally made the perfume essence, next time she turns it into something.
[we are still on chapter one, as it is an as and when thing! we plan to skip 2 and go onto 3 in the hopes that it ties in with our june holiday], and she happilly wrote through that. BB meanwhile got out her 
, and in her own way chose what she wanted to do! we then read some books together, whilst SB did some handwriting 
on jax and merry’s recommendations, and these 
cos they looked interesting!
as she really has been loving the roman mysteries, BB this 
oh, and i also bought these!!
Although I agree with Gina more = better, SB often makes up her tunes in various modal styles, and thought the pentatonic might keep this musical awareness going.
. you can’t really play it properly with 2, but it is OK for an child and adult scenario [or even 2 children] money much easier to come by! BB wandered off into the garden with chris, and then came back for some ivor the engine.
while they worked. we had dinner out in the garden, bathtime [obviously indoors!] and SB had more of 