Friday was a bit of a write-off and we spent most of the day in pyjamas (except B, who rugged up and rode in the rain up to the shops to buy bread, the hero!). B obligingly let me have a three hour nap with Da Boy in the afternoon, after which I felt much refreshed (although I still went to bed at 9pm). The rest of the time there was playing in the playroom, which I had cleared a bit further, watching TV, and playing in the rain. K and I had a boffer fight and then got into the dress-ups, so H and K were fetchingly attired in hats and other accoutrements when Daddy got home! B had Cubs, and when she came back informed me that she’s going to try to do about four badges simultaneously. Odd girl! One of them is the literature badge, although she hadn’t registered that it asked to read books by *six separate authors* instead of just *six books*, which she was already congratulating herself on having achieved with the My Secret Unicorn books. But I pointed out that she’s already most of the way there with the various things she’s been reading that weren’t MSU, so I think she’s decided to go ahead with it after all…
On Saturday I finished digging out the playroom and we vacuumed every inch of it. I settled in to clear out and rearrange all the books on the shelves, and since it looked like an all day job E took the munchkins off to the Malkara Scale Model Exhibition by himself for a couple of hours (see picture post). I pulled out all the books from the non-fiction shelves and rearranged them by KLA (how un-unschooly – don’t tell anyone!). In the process I found lots of forgotten treasures. I also managed to put away most of the books which had been sitting in piles on the shelves and other flat surfaces. B decided to declutter all the Goosebumps books which aren’t choose-your-own-adventures, which made some more space for paperbacks. I found Fantastic Mr Fox for B, which I was pretty sure she hadn’t read, and put it out for her, so she took that to bed and has read half of it already (look – another book for her literature badge!). I also found one of the tangrams puzzles and asked B to put it together so the pieces wouldn’t fall out of the box, so she did one of them. I also pulled out a number of books for K, who was up very late because she’d had a two hour nap in the afternoon, so needed a lot of entertaining in the evening *yawn*
This morning K and I got up early together, and did some music in front of the heater. I played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the bells and she accompanied me on the drum in perfect rhythm. Then we just experimented with making sounds for a while. B got up after reading in bed, and got on the computer. K has been playing with the safari animals, and now has the vintage wooden “professions” puzzle out, although I don’t think H’s assistance is really all that helpful… The plan for the day is that K and B will go out to the farm, and be back later tonight, so it’s about time to get K dressed and ready to go!
ETA: They had a lovely time out with Nannie and Pa, and B rang to squeak excitedly about having cantered and then galloped on Smoko! Then they went to Hall and B rode Sylvia while K played at the playground with Pa, but they had to come home earlier than expected because B came down with a headache. Panadol doesn’t appear to have made much of a difference, and she doesn’t appear to have any type of fever, so we’re wondering if it might be that she’s developing migraines (poor little scrap). She’s had one or two mysterious headaches before, so it could be…
So B curled up miserably on the couch, and K wanted to watch TV but the noise was irritating B, so we tucked K into her bed with E’s computer and Monsters Inc. H and I had gone to the markets before lunch, and I found organic free range eggs marked down to $2 per dozen, so now I have 3 dozen to use up! I hard boiled nine of them, and now have two quiches (one destined for the freezer) and a pastry shell for lemon meringue pie in various stages of preparation. K came out in time to help me with the quiches, which really meant steal the ingredients. B went to bed and seems to have gone to sleep.