Many good things to give us joy
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ailbheSwimming on Sunday: lovely time, Linnea totally relieved it wouldn't be a lesson with a teacher, Emer able to touch bottom in the extra-warm Teaching Pool, free!
After swimming, we went to town and bought clothes which fit for Linnea; tights, and socks, for her poor little toes, and a pair of trousers. I have a deep distrust of trousers for Linnea because they seem either too short in the rise, showing her bottom and eventually falling off, or too loose in the waist, quickly falling off unless we belt them, which means she finds going to the loo complicated. She actually needs dungarees but the pairs she inherited are now too small.
Now light in children's corner. Sadly, not much floor in the spare bedroom, where my mother will be at the weekend. Uhoh.
I'm gradually adding dinosaurs to the mountains painted on the wall above Linnea's bed.
On Monday, made bread, trimmed Emer's toenails - two of them seem to have a tendency to ingrow, which is bothering me a little. Might take her to the Health Visitor on Thursday to see if there's any standard advice I'm not already following.
Linnea is reading - and admits it. She's working through Peter and Jane books in a play-voice or a whisper, so that if she gets something wrong she can joke about it. It's a very annoying sound, that voice. But she read all of 1a yesterday, in ten minutes, then got up, threw herself into her father's arms, and said "I can read!" She followed this up with 4/5th of 1b today and is considering learning to write.
She's very pleased. And has again asked about ballet classes; I've phoned a couple of the dance schools around here which don't specialise in ballet, to see what they offer. But she hates a class setting intensely so unless they have drop-in sessions I can't see it working; we can't afford to pay out for a term's lessons and have her attend only one or two and then want to try something else.
Today - Tuesday - a friend and his toddler came around because the girls and I planned to watch Monsters, Inc but they changed their minds and insisted on not watching tv but instead cutting out more dinosaurs and gluing things to things and singing and stuff. Somehow I can never park them in front of the telly when I want to.
I hung laundry out, so it rained. I also did a boil wash, which I don't like but there are times when it's appropriate (seriously, orange? ORANGE?!)
I've been reading about the Select Committee thing on home ed and feeling a bit less panicky about it all. I haven't gone so far as to read the Cambridge Review though.
Also, people on my friendslist keep making Lemon Cake, with or without drizzle and poppyseeds, and I must emulate them. To this end I asked Rob to buy two lemons today. Maybe tomorrow I use them, haha!
Mmm, cake.
(Tomorrow our grocery delivery will come.)
After swimming, we went to town and bought clothes which fit for Linnea; tights, and socks, for her poor little toes, and a pair of trousers. I have a deep distrust of trousers for Linnea because they seem either too short in the rise, showing her bottom and eventually falling off, or too loose in the waist, quickly falling off unless we belt them, which means she finds going to the loo complicated. She actually needs dungarees but the pairs she inherited are now too small.
Now light in children's corner. Sadly, not much floor in the spare bedroom, where my mother will be at the weekend. Uhoh.
I'm gradually adding dinosaurs to the mountains painted on the wall above Linnea's bed.
On Monday, made bread, trimmed Emer's toenails - two of them seem to have a tendency to ingrow, which is bothering me a little. Might take her to the Health Visitor on Thursday to see if there's any standard advice I'm not already following.
Linnea is reading - and admits it. She's working through Peter and Jane books in a play-voice or a whisper, so that if she gets something wrong she can joke about it. It's a very annoying sound, that voice. But she read all of 1a yesterday, in ten minutes, then got up, threw herself into her father's arms, and said "I can read!" She followed this up with 4/5th of 1b today and is considering learning to write.
She's very pleased. And has again asked about ballet classes; I've phoned a couple of the dance schools around here which don't specialise in ballet, to see what they offer. But she hates a class setting intensely so unless they have drop-in sessions I can't see it working; we can't afford to pay out for a term's lessons and have her attend only one or two and then want to try something else.
Today - Tuesday - a friend and his toddler came around because the girls and I planned to watch Monsters, Inc but they changed their minds and insisted on not watching tv but instead cutting out more dinosaurs and gluing things to things and singing and stuff. Somehow I can never park them in front of the telly when I want to.
I hung laundry out, so it rained. I also did a boil wash, which I don't like but there are times when it's appropriate (seriously, orange? ORANGE?!)
I've been reading about the Select Committee thing on home ed and feeling a bit less panicky about it all. I haven't gone so far as to read the Cambridge Review though.
Also, people on my friendslist keep making Lemon Cake, with or without drizzle and poppyseeds, and I must emulate them. To this end I asked Rob to buy two lemons today. Maybe tomorrow I use them, haha!
Mmm, cake.
(Tomorrow our grocery delivery will come.)
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Date: 2009-10-21 04:57 pm (UTC)Tell Linnea that writing is most useful for writing lists :) Kate & Holly write countless lists every day of random things, from party invite lists, to Christmas ideas, to birds, animals & things around the house.
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Date: 2009-10-21 07:14 pm (UTC)These look similar, and these are a different sort. I don't know what's available over there, but this at least gives you an idea what I'm talking about. :)
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Date: 2009-10-23 09:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-29 11:29 pm (UTC)She did have black braces from John Lewis but the little toothy grippy parts broke.