Ah yes, this blogging thing again… Can’t remember what we did last week, so meh.
This morning B was very focused and we got some good work done before pottery. We managed to sit down by 9am, and played Maths War (revising addition and subtraction facts). That went pretty quickly and was a fun way to start out, so I think we’ll try to start out with that every morning and see if we can get her up to speed a bit more. When addition/subtraction are becoming a bit more automatic we’ll move on to practising multiplication.
After that, she happily wrote another page in her story, then had a quick break while I fed chickens and bunnies. Then she read another chapter in Tai’s Penguin, with very few mistakes, and without losing patience or her temper. She really is getting better! We dropped her off at pottery, then K and I went to the John Knight Memorial Park and had a (mostly) lovely time. The only bit I didn’t enjoy was taking her up to the snake park. I won’t do that again without B around, as my vertigo got a serious workout climbing in the towers. Although by the end of it K was definitely getting the hang of going down ladders safely backwards, which was good to see – she’d started out just trying to step forwards into space. A bit nerve-wracking to watch!
We were lucky enough to be able to watch a bobcat moving piles of mulch about, then follow it down to its truck and see that too. K was sufficiently hungry that she didn’t object to going home, so we went back and made ourselves lunch. I didn’t have a jumper for her so she was a bit chilly, and enchanted me by asking for “hand-socks” when I asked her if she was cold! She was not impressed when I mentioned that they are actually called gloves – hand-socks it is, then…
B was off at the swimming pool with Nannie until 3pm. It was nice to have some time to have fun with K without having to worry about dashing off again to pick up B. K and I were planning to go to the library after lunch, but I didn’t know how long Nannie was going to be, so we decided not to. Tomorrow or Wednesday will do. Instead, she did some colouring in and played with her rice basket while I wrote my monthly shopping list, and we also read books together and played Tummy Ache! I got some laundry done, although I’m afraid that the washing machine may have exploded a little bit while spin-drying the towels. At least, it made a hideous noise, a suspicious smell, and stopped working very quickly. The pump still seems to be working, but not the spin. When B walked (an hour afterwards) in the first thing she said was, “What have you been burning this time?”, and I have a horrible feeling that it is the motor…