So they watched Look and Read – what else?

I worked.  It was not overly satisfying today.

Big watched Look and Read, as has been said before (I’ve just gone wandering off to Ebay to see if the book is available, and this one isn’t.  Shame.)

Small doesn’t like L&R, but he did enjoy the science programmes that were on as the break between them.  He was heartbroken though when Big had put it to Dora which overran the start of the second half of the episodes, and she switched it back before he saw the end.  Poor little boy 🙁  He did amuse himself with junior meccano, then he built a den out of the duplo box lid, and I can’t think what the other thing was he did.  I know it involved small pieces of stuff all over the floor.

Oh, and he played on the Madagascar cd that we got from Film Education.  He’s ever so good on the computer, and it’s all figured out either by himself or by watching Big.  Very rare that he gets stuck on anything.  Takes after his mum I suppose 😉

After L&R had finished, they decided to do some craft, inspired by DoodleDo (or some such, a new cbeebies programme?  We still have cbeebies, and tinypop, as well as pop, nickjr and cbbc, Merry 🙂 )  So they started making a treasure box, and there was much glue, glitter and paint involved.  Small also decorated a couple of loo rolls, not quite sure why, but he was very happy about it.

And then we had lunch 🙂

More sticking and painting after lunch, then I think they played together for a while.  I managed to turn the tv off for a bit, but it didn’t last for long. At some point Big suddenly decided that she *had* to enter the Shaun the sheep competition from Blue Peter, that closes on Monday.  So that was a bit traumatic – she didn’t finish anything, and will hopefully be in a better mood to try in the morning.

Tea was a bit disastrous – think I’ve tracked down the source of our plug circuit tripping out the other night.  Oven doesn’t heat up any more – microwave works, grill works, but not the oven part of it.  We haven’t had it terribly long (although it could be a couple of years or more I suppose), so I’m not overly impressed that it’s quit on us.  Made doing the fish fingers a bit more of a protracted job anyway.

Tim came in in good time tonight, and took over the bedtime routine while I went out for fish and chips. 

So that’s our day.  I’m really impressed that we’ve got to a stage where they can occupy themselves well with minimal input – Small needs the occasional bit of assistance, but Big is pretty much independent.  Forget what her searching question of the day was, but I know there was one – still not up to the recent queries about how babies get to where they come from though.  It has made me realise that left to their own devices they will educate themselves – we still don’t have the balance that I’d like to our life atm, what with some flexi-schooling, some other childcare and far too little from us, but we’ve laid on a house full of resources and somehow we have two little learning machines that are just getting on with it.

Cool, isn’t it? 😀

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