Pizza and playtime

OK, so I’m struggling for a title here. 😉

Let’s see. Small tried to get up at 5am this morning, and took a little while to settle down again. Then he got up properly at 8 – I was really struggling to keep my eyes open though! Thank goodness for dp and my cup of tea…

Got downstairs, and dd brought me her book over even before I got to have breakfast! So I guess that is going well… 😉 Funny, as I’m really not sure how much of it she’s taking in, and when I’ve tried longer books with her in the past she’s rejected them within pages, but if she keeps asking for it, I’ll keep reading.

After breakfast we tried a recorder lesson. That didn’t work nearly as well, so I quit that one while we were behind. Still we tried it again, much later this afternoon, and she did manage to produce a decent note, so I felt that was quite an achievement. She’s a bit worried that it isn’t the right kind of recorder though, as it’s different to the picture on the book. It isn’t a proper recorder (it’s all one piece for starters) but it’ll do until I get my head round what I want in the way of instruments for her and ds.

Other activities for the day involved a visit from grandma, another reading lesson with a naturetrails Pooh book (almost wish we’d kept up with the magazine, but rather an expensive way of getting the nice little books I feel!), and she made a father’s day card for grandad (which she sealed without showing to me, so I’ve no idea what she drew or wrote!) After mother had gone, Small and I retired to bed, and dd played with her Katy Cat playset – I love listening to the stories she makes up, but I needed sleep!

And then the highlight. We made pizzas! I used to have a lovely cookery book that I used when I worked with adults with learning difficulties – it was a student cookbook, very straightforward, cheap, easy, quick recipes. About my level, so that I could work through them with other ppl. I lost the book in our move here (it’s probably in the garage somewhere!) so I can’t use the other recipes, but I used to use the pizza base myself, so I can remember it. There’s lots of kneeding and rolling out of dough, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that she’s really good at it all – she used to do it at her nursery apparently. So that is something that we could do with keeping up with I think. The downside is that she didn’t like the pizza, so she didn’t eat it, and we had a major scene about it. Oh well.

Oh, and I nearly forgot. We gave Grandma some more of our new potatoes for lunch, and dd sampled them and thoroughly enjoyed them. So I think they are a bit of a hit. Hopefully some more of our veg will make it at some point (if the greenhouse survives the winds!) and we’ll be able to introduce some other home grown fresh foods to our diet.