We went to bed to late again and struggled to get up, by Alys did sleep in her cot again for most of the night which was good 
Once H had staggered off to work I seem to remember we were doing something fairly constuctive, just struggling to remember what……
Sringbean didn’t want any breakfast at first so while me and Butterbean had ours she brought things out into the kitchen. We had a few books, she did a couple of jigsaws, one of which was her wooden one of Europe. Talked about different countries, where we had been, were we are going (off to Copenhagen next week for a few days when H goes to a conference. She saw th e little compass mark on the map so talked about that and about N, S, E, W etc.. The fact that it is in ‘Forrin’ ‘ and ahd and ‘O’ for East just added to the learning experince
At somepoint I aksed her if she had wanted breakfast yet, she plaintivley said ‘I’m waiting for my porridge……’ which I had started making then forgot… bad Daddy moment.
After all the post breakfast babby changing , abluting, dressing etc. (sent SB off to get some clothes, came back with here fairy outfit….) decided about time to start tidying up a bit as Joanna and the girls from Trying Our Bestwere paying a visit on their way back to their house. Stringbean was quite helpful today. Putting away various toys – she is getting much better when asked to do this, unless she ahs got too tired. Wiping down coffe tables and the kitchen table, putting things in the dishwasher etc. Butterbean helped out by going to sleep Joanna said how nice it was having a house just like her with stuff all over the place…..
I’d said they should be coming about 12, so once her clock got to 12 oclock, which she can recognise, she was hopping up to the window to see if they were here yet They arrived bearing lunchy items from Waitrose, so that was rather nice. I is still managing to hang on to a bit of baby chub which Alys is gradually loosing now. so they did a bit of baby bonding. T and Stringbean took a little while to settle down, moslty I think becuase T didn’t necessarily want to play what she wanted 
but they rubbed along happily enough, dresing in fairy outfits each, playing with the Brio train track, scampering around outside. SB showed off one of the Singapore maths books whilst I got the lunch ready.
Helen managed to get back before they had to go which was good. so we finished of with tea and cakes on the lawn before they departed. SB confused Tamisn with her different take on the rules for ‘tag’, so at one point they werew bith standingthere expecting the other to be doing something
SB’s lack of sleep catching up caught up with her at about 5.30 when she came over all whingey and cry-ey so she made a failry painless progression to bed tonight. It was lovley to have you all visit Joanna.
Helen seems to have found a window in her tight Flickr uploading schedule to get todays snaps in.
I esp like the ‘Fairy Controllers’:
Isabelles quiff:
And SB’s toes:
