As I’m giving up for the night.

Thanks to Y and D for their hospitality – we went back to theirs after group today. Also nice to catch up with C and her daughter.

Big had a lovely time playing with someone else’s dolls, and Small had a lovely time playing with someone else’s cars 😉

When we got home we finally got past *that* page in the JP workbook, but it took ages, and lots of encouragement from Tim and me. Plus I bribed her with painting once she’s finished it! So now she has read her first page of words, hopefully that will make a big difference. Turns out that watching the video at Kirsty’s yesterday made a big difference to – she picked up the later books this morning and started flicking through them, recognising some of the digraphs and letters we’d seen. So perhaps they are a good idea as well.

And then she got to to painting, and by then it was tea, bath and bed.

Small got 20 minutes kip in the car on the way back and has been deeply horrid all evening, only just giving up and falling asleep on the floor. So now I’m going to take him upstairs and go to bed myself. Night all.


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10 responses to “Quick post”

  1. Yes Jax, I had Freya up till about the same time last night! I don’t know how she gets by on so little sleep for a small baby! Some quiet time for us would be nice wouldn’t it? Kirsty saved me from a wrong-day trip to Sheffield yesterday for the MP group! I got the right date, wrong venue, and remembered later that day I was supposed to be in Chesterfield. Missed it again!
    BW
    Sal

  2. Well, you didn’t miss much – the group was a joint birthday party for two of the slightly older girls, so dd spent the hour we were there plastered to my side as she hates that kind of thing. 🙁

  3. Yes, I was planning on going but thought that a birthday party for children I’ve never met might not be the best date to start a new group.
    Jax – I still have your timetable fior the Chesterfield group. You must remind me to give it to you on Monday! (You *are* coming, aren’t you?)

  4. Yes, I’m coming on Monday. Why don’t you start Chesterfield next week then (and you come too Sal) as I’m doing the activity…paper planes!

  5. Aha! Yes I was planning to. I wondered what was going to be on as the rota says “? any ideas” lol.

  6. Jax how did you get the Education Category to have categories under that?

  7. You’ve got my friendly spammer working his way through your posts now! Have fun with the plugin 😉

  8. eeek – hope she likes the birthday party planned for Monday!

  9. Kirsty, I’m sure she’ll be fine. She knows all the children and it’s a very different setup.
    Sarah, thanks for the heads up. Hopefully fixed now.

  10. Just testing.

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