Twenty-Ten

I’ve been feeling slightly nauseaus all day which I think is due to the excitement of birthdays and organising a party tomorrow without either my Mum or my best friend. My biggest fear is forgetting something like one of the birthday cakes, there not being enough food to go round or no-one wanting to play pass-the-parcel with Ms R.

Other than my nerves today could be put down as good example of a day of home education. Ms R got a pile of books and got Master R to choose one that she could read to him. I think he chose ‘Thats not my Dolly’ which is a touch feely book. I think it’s great that she wants to read stories to him and if she’s anything like I was with my little brother she’ll read to him lots.

There was lots of playing Nanny and Grandads and making a play area for the dolls to play in. Together we built the wooden train track and they played with that for ages while I sorted clothes. I think they also played with the plastic animals briefly. 

Ms R requested doing some of Education City so we all sat round the laptop and did a couple of activities which involved putting letters in order, identified by their sounds, to make three letter words. We’ve never done anything formal with words and letters although I have always associated the sound with the name of a letter if they’ve come up. Like ‘Thats an ’s’, it makes a ssss sound’ in just the same way I used to say ‘Thats a cow, cows say mooo’. So I was surprised that she found it so easy it was boring. Master R looked on quietly and I suspect that he was absorbing some of it.

We had a quick trip to Mums to collect some cards and gifts for Master R. When we came home Master R was asleep and Ms R requested we did some puzzles together. We whizzed through them, we haven’t progressed from simple toddler puzzles yet because she never seemed to get the hang of them before.

When Master R woke up we played with the video camera for a bit. I videoed them saying what they wanted for their birthdays, up until now Master R hasn’t known and Ms R has mostly said toys. On the video camera Master R said he wanted a DS and Ms R said she wanted a pony. Oh dear.

While I cooked dinner the Rs watched tv. Ms R likes to flick through the channels on the way to Cbeebies and today stopped at what I think might have been a High School Musical movie. She watched it and imitated some of the dance moves. They both ate two dinners, maybe we missed lunch. And now we’re going to go to bed and have stories.

Tomorrow is Master Rs third birthday.