No more fudge please!!!

As much as I love the Fudge stories by Judy Bloom I am getting really tired of hearing the same book on cd over and over again. It has got to the point where I have most of it memorised!! There are 4 fudge books in the series but to date only the most recent is on cd. We have read all of the others but the last one we listen to everytime we get in the car. I am beginning to believe that Fudge is a real person. I have tried other books on cd to distract him but none of them capture his imagination the way Fudge does. Please Judy Bloom bring out the earlier books on cd and save my sanity!!!!

We had a lovely day today, a nice slow start to the day and then a long walk in the afternoon. As part of the Heritage open days the Milton Estate opened its gates and laid on a 2 hour walk around their grounds. The estate is only about a mile from the house ( and infact our house was built for some of their workers) but I had no idea just how large it is. There are thousands of acres hidden behind the ugliness that is bretton. The land and house have been in the same family since 1502! Which to me is mind blowing-imagine the clutter they must have in their loft!! Unfortunately the house was is not open and indeed is never open to the public but from what we could see of it, it was pretty impressive. Sam seemed to enjoy the walk but we were both flagging a little towards the end. He got a kick out of the sheep, who followed us across fields. Following all that excercise we came back and watched Rugrats the Movie again. He is now tucked up in bed fast asleep, excited at the prospect of starting our lessons tomorrow with science.

Tomorrow is the 'official' kick off our home schooling year. We are doing the full blown Sonlight K and I just hope that I manage to make it fun and enjoyable for us both. Sam has lots of ideas for lapbooks that he wants to do as well as various experiments and art projects. He is very into clay at the moment and I can see that the stuff we bought on friday is not going to last very long.

Yesterday was my nephew's birthday party-which was out of doors at audley end minature railway. Luckily we managed to fit in the trains and bouncy castles before the heavens opened and we had to retreat to the party tent. The picture below is of sam riding one of the go-cart, bike type things there. He had lots of fun on the bikes but wasn't so keen on the bouncy castle.