Where to begin..??

We have been very busy the last few days. M had two days off unexpectedly (they forgot to put him on the rota!!!-he did tell the dept but they never called him to come in). We made the most of the two days.

Tuesday was spent doing 'normals' in the morning and then diy in the afternoon. The big change around has begun. We have taken the extra working tops out of the kitchen and moved the dining room table in there. We also pulled up all the flooring and scrubbed down the walls to paint then. The dining room is now the grown up living room (must think of a better name than that!) and the living room is now the playroom. There is still lots to be done, including lots of decluttering. Our goal is to have the playroom at the least done by the send of the summer. This will give sam and I more room to work, play and learn. Sam was a very big help on the diy front, he is very good with a screwdriver and kept telling me "righty tighty, left loosey".

Yesterday was our family day, in ignorance of the weather forecast we decided to cycle round rutland water. We hired a trailer bike or tag along for sam and it was a great success. He peddled almost continually and was very excited at being able to ride like a grown up. We made it half way round the lake before the rain started and had no choice but to carry on round. We all had macs on but as it turned out M's was no longer waterproof! We were all soaked to the skin by the time we got back-and warmed by by lighting a fire!! I think it was the first time we have ever used the fireplace in the summer. It did the trick though as we were soon all toastly and warm. I was really proud of the way sam handled himself on the bike ride, not once did he complain despite the distance and the weather. We were so impressed that we bought a tag along bike and are now looking forward to lots of fun family cycle rides. We would have ridden it to karate this afternoon but didn't fancy getting soaked two days in a row.

We are taking the reading slowly at the moment-he seems very frustrated everytime we sit down to read together and I don't want to turn him off reading. I think we will go back over the second set of bob books and revisit some of the earlier headsprout stories. Perhaps by bolstering his confidence that will help him to move forward.