Both Mr Bat and I have been down with tummy lurgis, in his case giardia, in my case suspected recovery from giardia (I had a day of heavy toilet occupancy the other week which I suspect was the same thing but my tummy was still tender). Mr Bat chose to hit it with heavy-duty abx but I decided to stick with natural remedies since my symptoms were much less intense. Anyway, it ended up with him in bed with the wobblies Tuesday-Wednesday and me feeling tired and nauseous in sympathy. So nothing much got done.

K found another maths workbook in the cupboard and decided that she wanted to work through that. It wasn’t entirely successful because H was feeling the lack of attention and whenever he spotted me trying to do anything with K he immediately had to be part of it. But K was mostly managing to get the hang of the sums in her book despite it all. I love how every time she is motivated to pick up something like this, she just makes these big mental leaps. So much fun to watch. But facilitating her learning can be draining: I was explaining it to Mr Bat yesterday by saying that my part in the process is turning the question around until I find the way which clicks with her brain and unlocks her understanding of what they’re asking. Not the easiest thing for me given my maths-phobia but at least I’m reasonably confident at a kindy maths level 😛 And at least doing it this way I know she’s not learning anything by rote, like I did, which is why I often don’t feel like I know WHY they’re asking what they’re asking!

Other than that, they spent hours and hours in the garden, watched iView and movies, played in their room together, read books (including K reading to me and H), and last night all of us watched the first half of Going Postal all snuggled up together on Mr Bat’s bed…