just another morning here

Smoothie of the day: Banana & Mango with Apple juice

Hectic morning turned out okay. Kids all got up and ready in time to leave around 8.40am, getting us to Stage Studios just before 9am. We realised that Anna’s thing didn’t finish until 10.15am so decided to go to the park for 45 minutes, get to Joe’s thing on time at 10am then be a bit late picking Anna up.

Bit disappointed to find that no-one else turned up to the suzuki intro session; we thought there was another 4yo starting at the same time as Josiah, and they would have done some group stuff together. Anyway the teacher, Mr Featherstone, was lovely, and Joe responded well to him – we’ve come away with a sponge & ruler violin – to get used to how to stand/hold the instrument. Steve and I are apparently going to have lessons as well, which is quite scary, but I definitely see the point of it, as otherwise you as a parent must find it hard to support your child in learning. I’m actually just worried that Steve will be better than me

Got back to pick Anna up and it seemed she’d had a good time although she didn’t want to have to choose between this and Stagecoach. I am reserving judgement – we have to give Stagecoach half a term’s notice, so she might as well finish this term, and we’ll decide which one to go on with at half term. Now I just have ballet to sort out – we *might* be having dance lessons again at home ed group but it’s not definite yet.

Popped to Sainsbury’s on the way home for some shopping, had to buy Abbie a couple of pairs of trousers as she seems to have shot up, at least too far to fit into her jeans from last winter. Managed to get Joe some black trousers for Aunty Mimi’s wedding, too, but no luck on the white shirts, they only had polo shirts, what are schools coming to these days, honestly

Had corn on the cob for lunch and now we’re settling down to veg out in front of the original Superman … well, they’re vegging out, I’m doing that laundry I procrastinated over last night After that we’re planning tea, a chapter of The Magician’s Nephew, then more TV. Lazy day really, but hey, it is Saturday.

Have only had one phonecall from the office this morning, which was fielded successfully – thankfully my mobile tells me when it’s a forwarded call, so that’s handy. Hopefully we won’t have missed too many customers on the site, either.

(a) that the ‘thin on the ground’ blog posts would only start after Stuart & Liz arrive, for now I’m in ‘cleaning avoidance mode’.

(b) that Abbie lost another front top tooth yesterday – she pulled it out while we were at our friends’ BBQ. Lots of blood and plenty of attention by doing it like that. She is now in that ‘huge gap at the front’ phase, and very proud of it

Didn’t know that was there! One of the girls must have attacked Josiah after a bath and then captured it on camera as well! I think he was showing off the new PJs as well …

We got bored of watching the text version of the Man Utd v Exeter City match this afternoon and started one of our science kits instead – all about digestion and the digestive system, so that went down well. The kids labelled diagrams and discussed the digestive system, tested for the presence of starch in different foods using iodine, there were a couple of activities looking at fats, and an overnight experiment to do with gelatine and the enzyme pepsin, but we didn’t get very far with that one, it will have to wait until tomorrow night!

Ruth came to pick up her girls around 4.30pm, a bit later than expected. Also unexpectedly, she then invited Anna & Abbie to go back to her house for a sleepover, which they were thrilled about.
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