Backdating…

Getting behind with blogging, this is the story of Monday, typed up on Tues at Merry’s, and posted from the Beans on Weds 🙂 Can’t be bothered to change the date though!

After the children get bored they move on to what is a more productive phase, depending on how you look at it. For example, yesterday.

I came down, and Small had been playing with ideal blox while Big was watching TV – something about building a robot horse. They then continued to move from activity to activity all day, wish I’d decided to do a typical day and take pictures 😉

Small started out with the magnet kit that we’ve had for absolutely ages, while Big was circling looming – the idea that someone wanted to buy one of her purses has spurred her on. I got stuck on my maths, and we of course had Stephen Fry chuntering along in the background. We’re on Goblet of Fire atm. I did interrupt him briefly to do the Burt test I’d done on Big the evening before, he came out at 95 words, which is 12.09, against her 97, 12.11. He chose to finish there, I think there is a chance he could have gone further, but given he currently enjoys things like that, I don’t like to push it.

Big then moved on to the magnets while Small picked up one of those sliding puzzle things, you know, where there are 16 holes but only 15 pieces and you slide them all about until they are in the right places. They remind me of the test I had to do when I went to WGHS and had my headmistress interview, towers of hanoi. Small approaches it in a very different way to Big – he came and asked me what to do, and I showed him the principle, and off he went, very happy. Big investigated how many pins she could pick up on each magnet, and Small got bored with the puzzle and started brumming Noddy’s car (without Noddy) around the floor, while Stephen Fry got up to Mad Eye Moody (who is a wonderful character I have to admit).

And then it was time to excavate the kitchen so I could prepare lunch. Nope, doesn’t have the same ring at all 😉 While I was doing that, the children located musical instruments, recorders and piano and guitar. Once we’d lunched (together as a family, more brownie points there) they moved on to ‘putering.

The putering wasn’t really anything but Harry Potter trailers, for an hour at that! Can’t believe their devotion to this topic, but there you go. There was more brumming, and Big doodled on the edge of a pad. Shortly after that, Harry Potter got turned off, and they went charging off outside, Big with her scooter, and then both of them with bubbles that I found in one of the endless piles of stuff.

I decided on a PO and library trip, and the children came along for the walk. That means I know they’ve covered about a mile today, not too bad for incidental walking 😉 PO was to post off a parcel and I needed Deathly Hallows from the library. While I sat in an armchair and got on with the book, Small found a Wally book, then a tell the time book, and Bit did some Where’s Wally? as well, before finding herself a book about Angela and the Baby Jesus. She really liked that one and brought it home.

Once home, Big raided the shelves and found the Tim era Etch a Sketch while Small returned to the noddy car. I’ve a feeling what happened next may have been tea and then bedtime. At bedtime I know that they are both reading whichever Harry Potter they are on, so that’s not so bad really for a day’s effort.