friends old and new

The last two days has been filled not with boxes, thankfully, but with friends. Yesterday we met up with new friends, L and her son M. M is the same age as sam and they also use sonlight. Sam and M got on like a house on fire, in fact we hardly saw them they were so busy playing. I really enjoyed chatting with L and hope that we will see a lot more of them. They only live the next village over so are nice and close. Sam was delighted to have made a friend close by and I was too.
Today was filled with old friends-Merry and the girls came to play and it was wonderful to see them. They are our first official visitors and it was fun showing them around. Sam and the girls had lots of fun, playing some made up game involving most of his fluffy animals, especially the snakes. We didn't see much of them as they spent most of their time in sam's room or the playroom, which merry and I a chance to catch up. We were both sad when they left, we miss all having all of our old friends close by.

Sam really enjoyed learning about the la brea tar pits today as part of our california project. He spent ages drawing a picture of the pits and various animals getting stuck. Next stop on our california tour is the native population. He finished sinagpore 1A today, though with some protest. I can't seem to make math fun for him, maybe because it isn't one of my favorite subjects. Must try harder though as I don't want him to become mathphobic. The Minimus latin books arrived today which was another excitement. Am very keen to start the programme as I think he will enjoy it, especially as the two main characters are a cat and a mouse. We are going to take it very slowly but hopefully it will be fun. It should help him with his french and his english grammar.