Last night's post

finished with:

“And now I’m going to go work on some graphics. And study some java. Maybe do the washing up. Package up some ebay parcels.”

I thought I’d update you 🙂 I washed up. Worked on some graphics. Didn’t do the parcels last night, but did get them posted today anyway. Didn’t get to the java 🙁

Tonight I’ve got to finish off the site that was waiting for the graphics. Start work on another site. Write up a couple of quotes for ppl. Ticking along. Be nice to do some java, but I doubt it’s going to happen.

I started this morning aimlessly – wandered in and Big was watching some inane cartoon. When I went to switch it over she protested “it’s about decimals!” so I stopped to look and sure enough it was. So what’s a decimal? I asked her “it’s a smaller bit” she said. Which seemed a fair enough starting point. 😉 When that one was over I did switch over to primary history, which didn’t catch her imagination nearly as much today. She drifted off to do some more bizarre creature building, and Small brought me a set of animal snap cards. I got those out for him and discovered that he can match pictures.

I am beginning to wonder if he’s going to start talking any time soon. I’m wondering if he’s going to do it like he did walking – he had all the skills ages before he actually walked, but he just didn’t want to do it. He was 15 months when he finally did it, and I don’t remember him wobbling or anything – he just walked. Perhaps he’ll do the same with talking? I’m fairly sure there isn’t any reason for him not to be talking other than he doesn’t want to. Such very different children I have 🙂

They charged about in the garden quite a lot again today – after I’d cut half the lawn at lunch time. Big garden we have, that’s the compost bin full again. Give it a couple of days to go down, and then I’ll do the other half! Then about 3 o’clock they were playing upstairs, and Big called me in to see Small fast asleep in her little chair. I transferred him to his bed, and he stayed asleep. So Big and I did the post office trip and the shopping without him, which was quite nice actually.

On the way to the shops we went over our address and phone number – seems like something it would be a good idea for her to know. I also told her my name, given as we have different surnames, it also seems a good thing for her to know. She seemed to pick up the whole thing pretty quickly, which is good, I’ll check her again tomorrow though.

In the post office she spotted the alphabet on the scales, and was very pleased to recognise it in the sequence. She also watched as we weighed the different packages, and spotted how the numbers were bigger for the larger one. This is good, I’ve been doing measuring stuff out for baking, but I don’t think our little digital scales were giving her comparison in quite the same way.

Other conversations of note – one about voting and government, sparked off by the chappy on the doorstep. I should add that while he was enthused by the idea of home ed, he did want to know if I was teaching her important stuff like spelling. Sigh. Well, at least he was enthusiastic 😉 That tied into discussion about the pope when I heard the announcement of the new one on the radio on the way home. And of course we heard “another brick in the wall” again – which she really seems to have taken too. Should have known that my little Springsteen babe would grow up to prefer rock to pop 🙂