curious sam..

Went to a free screening of curious george in nottingham yesterday and we both really enjoyed it. We met up with friends and the 4 children were absolutely spellbound, not a peep out of any of them for the whole movie. In fact, I have never heard such a quiet movie theatre(except for giggles and laughter in the right places) considering there must have been about 75 children there. The sound track was great too, we all like jack johnson-he is so very jimmy. He is gettting a lot of airtime at the moment, just hope jimmy does too when Hoot is released over here.
After the movie we hopped on the tram and found a park for our picnic, the children ran around like loons while we mums played catch up. We were lucky with the weather and the heavens didn't open until we were safely on the train home. Nottingham looks like a fun city (yes I know it is the most violent city in the uk but not in the very centre) and worth getting to know. It is only about half and hour by train so we will definately be heading back up there.

Came home to find the phone line was down, which meant, horror of horrors, no internet!! After lots of irate calls to BT the problem was finally sorted today-appears the line was accidently cut by guys working down the road.

Sam's map of the solar system is more or less done, it looks good and he has enjoyed doing it. Will photograph it tomorrow once he has had a chance to add stars and space ships. He is really enjoying our space unit, not so much for the planets but for the probes and space ships. All is knex has now been made into probes and droids and aliens, who seem to be locked in some type of battle for the universe. Me thinks he has seen star wars one to many times!! He is also enjoying latin-mainly I think because two of the characters are a cat and a mouse. He has been saying 'mus exit" all day, which is the last line of one of the stories. He can't get over the fact that the characters in the story actually existed-we must get up to vindolanda this summer and show him the fort and where the family lived. More california project tomorrow-this time looking at the european conquest. last week he had fun building california indian dwellings out of mechano. He is always building something.

The boys gave the lawn its first cut today, sam loved working with M and M was very patient with him. I think that they both enjoyed themselves.