It’s been ages since I’ve actually put something in here about our lives, and when it comes right down to it, those are the posts I read back to see. So apologies to those reading for the more interesting stuff, here’s a bit of a braindump of what we’ve been up to since FoH.
Small has got into programming in a big way. He’s spending a lot of time on Scratch and has taken a massive leap forward with it. While I am a programmer by trade as it were, he appears to be one by instinct, and while I work hard at being creative, he hasn’t worked out how not to be. Visually he’s been drawing stuff to put together games, and working out how to make them to what he wants. He seems to be doing pretty well with it, and is certainly fixated on spending time on it. Having said that, over the last few days, they’ve both been playing outside again – the Hogwarts game having made a re-entry.
Big is re-reading the Harry Potters. She was thrilled to receive a copy of the Deathly Hallows
from the Hogwarts librarian to replace the one sadly destroyed by the Puking pastels attack 😉 . So she read that one, and now she’s reading the one before. No, I don’t know why she’s reading them backwards as it were. But she’s devouring them, and it’s restarted the Hogwarts games. No bad thing.
She’s still plodding her way through mathletics as well – progress is steady and I’m pleased with how she’s doing. I do wish she didn’t always decide to do it when I’m in the middle of doing something else mind, it’s quite hard work keeping a baby happy and cooking tea for a family of five while also giving a maths lesson on mental times. Which is my excuse for getting it horribly wrong so that she didn’t get her gold bar :blush:
Soa is becoming a handful, in the nicest possible way. She’s cracked the whole crawling thing, well, sort of. She crawls a little bit, then flumps to her stomach and does this commando thing which is twice as fast. And she can get past things, or through things, and in the last couple of days she’s figured out how to sit herself up again when she gets where she wants to be, so now she can pull things down from tables and chairs. And if you hold her up she’ll take steps too.
Today she started to play in a purposeful way rather than just accidentally. She was sitting with her Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Learning Puppy
(a gift from the Fisher Price ppl at Cybermummy – thank you!) and appeared to realise that it was reacting to her touch. So instead of just bouncing on it and interrupting it and causing it to flip from song to song she’d bounce until it started and then wait for it to finish before bouncing again. On some levels this is progress 😉 Wish I’d aimed the camera at her when she was trying to dig her way out of the french window with a spoon as well 😀
Family wise, we had a fab weekend at the Beans party, seeing lots of friends. Kids had a fab time, I assume, as we barely saw them! Big made it through the weekend with only one wobble, and Small only struggled with having to sleep without her in the room with him. And soa didn’t wobble at all, except for when other adults tried to cuddle with her 😉
Usual swimming lessons are going on – Small had a trial up to the green hats. We haven’t had a call yet, but on past experience this could happen as late as Monday afternoon to rearrange for Tues. We shall see.
And that’s about all I can think of for now. So I’ll finish with some photos of children in typical poses.
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