Botheration, it's raining again

Ah well, that’s the washing rewashed. Thankfully Small’s new poster set was under the gazebo, so it survived. Other than that, it can all get wet. Including Big’s shoes, which I have rescued for her, but if she keeps on leaving them outside, I’m not going to bother 👿

Today, what happened today? Hauled myself down here relatively early, sat and watched Something Special with the children. Small absolutely loves it, and is picking up signs at a rapid rate (probably about the rate he should be picking up spoken words I’d guess :-/ ) I’ve decided to try to watch it with him a couple of times a day if we’re about and focus on the signs Justin has used to build up vocab. So today we had clothes. 🙂

Bit later on, after the children had completely trashed the living room by getting out every game with small pieces they could find, they headed outside with some Spot posters to do some painting. I took a couple of calls from recruiters (getting rather bored with all this now, but hey) and sorted out more bookbags. Then we took a trip to the not so local post office, and did some banking as well.

Back home for tea, during which Big bizarrely started firing mathematical answers at me – 2+2 is 4, that sort of thing. Not quite sure why, but she seemed happy with it.

After her bath I made her really happy – showed her how to add up bigger numbers by writing them in columns and breaking it down so that you only ever add small numbers. I did it in self defense as she kept going on about wanting a working calculator and I was trying to show her that she didn’t need one. She was so happy though that she hugged me. Odd child 😉

Tim arrived back just as they were getting out of the math and took Small to bed. Then he got kicked out too 😉 and came downstairs just in time to take over the reading with Big as I lost patience completely. We’d done a couple more pages of a day in the life, tudor style, and were onto the Usborne Elizabeth I. There were only a couple more sentences to go, but Big was really tired and just messing about, so I’d given up. Tim managed to make it through though.

And that was that for the educational part of the day, although I did learn that 5 minutes is too soon before the end of an Ebay auction to really grab a bargain. Got me a copy of OS2 Warp though 🙂