A proud mommy moment..

so excuse me for boasting. We went to the fitzwilliam museum in cambridge today and over the main entrance is a frieze depecting a greek god in a chariot. As we walked up sam said, "who is that greek god in the picture mommy?"-my immediate reaction was one of disbelief, you mean he has actually been listening to what we have been reading!! Once I picked myself up off the floor we had a family summit to try and decide who the god was. We determined that it was definately male ( hard to miss really) but I said apollo and M said zeus. Sam then said that he was going inside to ask one of the ladies at the desk. They did not seem at all surprised to be asked such a grown up question from a 4 year old-but this being cambridge maybe it happens everyday. Turns out it was zeus-lots of points for daddy! S and I enjoyed the museum, he really seemed to take in what he was seeing. M wasn't so impressed he felt it was a bit of a hodgepodge without an overiding theme. Be that as it may it still had more to offer than Peterborough Museum.

We had a thoroughly lovely afternoon in cambridge. After the museum we went for tea and cakes and then wandered along the backs watching the punts. Sam kept shouting-"Don't Crash, Don't fall" in to those who were having a particularly difficult time. That could well be us on Sat as we are taking cheryl there for a picnic on the river. We even got sam to agree that one day he might in fact go to college if it meant he could mess around on boats in the river.

Strolling along the backs in the sunshine was a nice way to end a fun day. This morning after doing our formal learning we had friends over to play. Everyone disappeared upstairs to play so J and I got to have a peaceful chat and I got lots of cuddles from the baby. From what we can gather the sam, B and I spent their time parking cars in the garage and building new cars out of lego.

We picked tons of strawberries yesterday and am going to attempt to make jam. I have never made jam before so it is going to be an interesting experience!!