A ragtop day..

and it was, beautifully warm and sunny both climatically and otherwise. the only fly in the oinment was seeing m off to work this morning and knowing that we won't see him until monday night.

We spent the whole day at ferry meadows. sam cycled there for the first time, it was so cute to hear him go 'whee' as we went down the little hills. I was very proud of him, he rode responsibly and never once moaned about anything. It was probably only about a mile each way but it was further than he had been before.
We met up there with the rest of the peterborough home ed group who were having a japanese day. We hope to go to japan one day so sam was very keen to go along and find out all about it.
As you can see by the photos he joined in on everything and had a blast. the scarf he made was beautiful, yet quite simple to do. He enjoyed the sword making (out of cardboard) and the sushi making. The minature zen gardens captured his imagination and though we didn't do one there (couldn't get it home on the bikes) he did one when we came home. It ened up being an assult course for the lady bugs of our garden. It was great to see him interacting with the older children and doing it so confidently. A group of them went on a ladybug hunt to fill up E's garden and he was in the thick of it. What was even nicer was that the older children were all so accepting of him and happy to let him join in.
After the event finished we went to one of the playgrounds with some of the others and let the children carry on with their games.

After a quick bike ride home we made the zen garden and stocked it full of ladybugs. We listened to little toe radio before bed-he is really enjoying listening to it at the moment. The enid blyton stories seem to captivate him most.

All in all it was a lovely day, even if it did start before 6am with airplane building!!