or not of both of them anyway.
Slept in this morning, can’t think why 
Then P rang, and offered to have Big overnight tonight, after she’d been shopping. I offered to have A while she went shopping so she said she would drop him off about 2.
I set out with a very grumpy Small to do shopping and cat feeding, and while I was out got a text saying that A had changed his mind and gone shopping with his mum. Bother. 
I’d specifically left Big at home so that she would be there to play with him. Instead she did me a lovely picture - her drawing seems to be really coming on atm.
We also did a tiny bit of decorative stuff with our Magic Maize, and Big did a bit more on her mosaic box.
P arrived about 5 and carted Big off into the night, much to Small’s displeasure. He’s been very out of sorts today - threw a mega mega tantrum this morning when I cruelly and maliciously changed his nappy (it was horrid! It really needed changing…) must have taken about 20 minutes for him to stop sobbing afterwards. I hate that.
Have noticed that his burbling is beginning to sound like sentences - think that he might skip the single word bit and launch straight into sentences, which would be about par for the course.
Had a chat with Tim tonight about my complete inability to grasp geography - he’s of the opinion that it’s a learning disability. I can’t think in maps - can’t remember where countries are, despite the rather beautiful map we have in the hallway I’ve no idea how to go about memorising where things are. How does everyone else do this?
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yes, Ally seems to speak in unintellegible sentences, too. and he doesnt say mummy, but meemumumumeemee….ad infinitum.
Had interesting conversation about geog with one of montessori teachers- they start with the world and work their way inwards: continents next(touchy feely globes), then countries (did u see globes in LIDL for 2.99?). Dont forget men have a completly different way of thinking about maps etc than women- that’s why ppl have rows when trying to drive/navigate together (apparently-cant think where this came from!). I personally cant keep up with where all countries are, but we do have an elc atlas jigsaw, which helps!
Well, how *I* did it is rather lost in the midst of time, though I am resonably good at it, with the exception of the old Soviet Block countries, and some that reverted to their original names after they managed to get rid of the colonialists. But that’s just about not updating properly after years of knowing them as something else. For Hannah, we started at the extremes first. So at one end,land/water mass first, then continents. And then a continent at a time. At the other extreme, we got an ariel map of our neighbourhood, and then walked round it, finding all the things on the map.
I found this - http://www.yourchildlearns.com/puzzle_eur.htm quite useful - just don’t get competitive with Tim yet, lol!
The wall in the hall’s probably not such a good learning environment as the wall in the loo