Thanks to Merry we have discovered fimo (pics to follow). Sam has had a ball the last two days making a variety of creations. Yesterday he made a stegi, a pleaisour, miko, r2d2 and cp30. Today he has made marquesa and a cobra. He has had lots of fun and has taken great care to make his creations. We bought the xmas kit so will be doing candy cane and xmas stocking decorations for the tree.
We had a flying visit to merry's yesterday. Sam really enjoyed playing with the girls and Merry and I had a chance to catch up. It was lovely to see them, can't believe it has been so long since our last visit.
Lots of normals this week and sam is really enjoying the next math book. He immediately grasped the concept of greater than and less than and spent yesterday morning snapping like a crocodile. I explained that the symbol faces toward the larger number with the open end, like a crocodile eating the big number. The talk of crocodiles then prompted lots of steve irwin discussion and play and he tried to wrangle his fluffy dragon like steve wrangled crocs. All I can say is thank goodness it wasn't Miko or I! Who knew that math could be so dangerous!
He is beside himself with excitement about tomorrow as he is going to the space center with M and my fil to hear 5 shuttle astronauts give a talk. I think all the boys are excited, sam has been trying all week to think of a good question to ask them. No luck so far so we will have to work on it tomorrow morning. He is going to wear his commemorative Columbia T-Shirt from Dad and ask them to sign it. Am going to send them with the camera so hopefully there will be a few pics to post tomorrow night.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Belated thanksgiving wishes..
I know it is a few days late but I wanted to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving. We had a lovely day and I hope that Matthew's colleague and his family enjoyed our company as much as we enjoyed theirs. Sam and their daughter got on very well and he is very keen to play with her again. It was nice to be able to share the holiday with friends. Roll on christmas!!
The last week and a half have passed by quickly thanks to seeing lots of family and friends. We had great fun at the space centre with M and her boys and then a few days later we met up with my in laws to take my mil ice skating for her birthday. We managed to get tickets for the rink at the natural history museum and we were impressed with how well it was organised. We all had a lot of fun with minimal bumps and bruises. Sam stayed on the ice for the whole hour, though a lot of that was on his bottom! I am not sure which was more fun for him-skating or falling. He was giggling the whole time. We made a flying trip to the natural history museum-long enough for sam to buy yet another fluffy dino! I am sure that he has more dinos than jurassaic park, how he manages to sleep with them all in his bed is a mystery. All in all it was a wonderful day out.
It has been a quiet week as far as schooling-a lot of the time we spent getting ready for thanksgiving. Sam was a fantastic help in the kitchen and with the cleaning. We talked a lot about thanksgiving, its history and what he is thankful for. He really enjoyed talking about the fact that the president pardens a turkey every year so we visited the white house website and voted on the names for the presidental turkey. that then led on to a discussion about where the president lives, what the does and why he has so many pets! His two dogs and cats are quite the filmakers and have several short movies on the site. Sam now thinks that Miko should make a movie for our blog...watch this space!! We have also had interesting discussions about alexander the great and have started watching the dvd of "In the footsteps of Alexander" with Michael Wood. We have all been glued to it and are going to get more of his series as they are very compelling. Shame we can't find them at the library-those are the sort of things they ought to have really.
Miko is still loosing teeth and is getting bolder as far as food goes. If I leave something on the counter top she will try to get it when my back is turned. She managed to lick a whole pile of tortillas on friday so I had to throw them out. With what she snacks on the amount of germs in her mouth don't bear thinking about. We took her for a long watlk in bradgate today. She and sam were covered in mud by the time we got back to the car but we managed to tucker them both out. It is so beautiful up there, would love on one of the higher peaks in the park.
The last week and a half have passed by quickly thanks to seeing lots of family and friends. We had great fun at the space centre with M and her boys and then a few days later we met up with my in laws to take my mil ice skating for her birthday. We managed to get tickets for the rink at the natural history museum and we were impressed with how well it was organised. We all had a lot of fun with minimal bumps and bruises. Sam stayed on the ice for the whole hour, though a lot of that was on his bottom! I am not sure which was more fun for him-skating or falling. He was giggling the whole time. We made a flying trip to the natural history museum-long enough for sam to buy yet another fluffy dino! I am sure that he has more dinos than jurassaic park, how he manages to sleep with them all in his bed is a mystery. All in all it was a wonderful day out.
It has been a quiet week as far as schooling-a lot of the time we spent getting ready for thanksgiving. Sam was a fantastic help in the kitchen and with the cleaning. We talked a lot about thanksgiving, its history and what he is thankful for. He really enjoyed talking about the fact that the president pardens a turkey every year so we visited the white house website and voted on the names for the presidental turkey. that then led on to a discussion about where the president lives, what the does and why he has so many pets! His two dogs and cats are quite the filmakers and have several short movies on the site. Sam now thinks that Miko should make a movie for our blog...watch this space!! We have also had interesting discussions about alexander the great and have started watching the dvd of "In the footsteps of Alexander" with Michael Wood. We have all been glued to it and are going to get more of his series as they are very compelling. Shame we can't find them at the library-those are the sort of things they ought to have really.
Miko is still loosing teeth and is getting bolder as far as food goes. If I leave something on the counter top she will try to get it when my back is turned. She managed to lick a whole pile of tortillas on friday so I had to throw them out. With what she snacks on the amount of germs in her mouth don't bear thinking about. We took her for a long watlk in bradgate today. She and sam were covered in mud by the time we got back to the car but we managed to tucker them both out. It is so beautiful up there, would love on one of the higher peaks in the park.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
New Experiences
We have all had a few new experiences the past few days. Today sam and I went to a meeting of the leicester home ed group with our friends V & I. We went with open minds and were keen to meet people and make friends. Sadly we were disapointed as were V & I. It was so unstructed that nothing was laid on and there was a very loose theme of topps trump cards. We brought ours and sam and I had a good couple of games against V & I but he could not interest anyone else in playing. There were a few toys but they were all for much younger children and in the end sam and a few of the other boys played tag in the yard. We were so lucky with our old groups and really miss them and all our friends. Sadly, sam's french class clashes with it so not sure when we will be able to go back. V & I came away with the idea of starting our own group-a la muddlepuddle style and I think that we will have a go. There may well be other people out there in the area who would like something a bit more structured but also full of fun. We are seeing them later in the week so will have a go at a bit of planning.
Miko's new experience was Ikea. We pottered up there on sat and while they wouldn't let her in she had a good walk around the outside. She would have dearly loved a hot dog and an ice cream but we were afraid that it would be too rich for her tummy. It has been quite upset the last few days so she has been back in her crate at night. After getting up in the early hours of sunday morning to clean up lots of disgusting puddles we decided that was the best course of action. When everything has cleared up she can come back to our bedroom.
We are having guests for thanksgiving next thursday so prepartions are in full swing. Sam has decided that he wants to do table decorations so we are going crafty for the rest of the week. The lovely ocado man should be delivering all the food on monday so hopefully the cooking will be straight forward. Sam has promised to help with the pies-why am I not surprised!
We are both very excited as M and the boys are coming to visit and we are all going to the space centre. Sam is very put out that Miko can't come, after all he argued they have sent a dog into space so why can't she go and look at rockets. Can't fault his logic but I don't think they will see it that way.
Miko's new experience was Ikea. We pottered up there on sat and while they wouldn't let her in she had a good walk around the outside. She would have dearly loved a hot dog and an ice cream but we were afraid that it would be too rich for her tummy. It has been quite upset the last few days so she has been back in her crate at night. After getting up in the early hours of sunday morning to clean up lots of disgusting puddles we decided that was the best course of action. When everything has cleared up she can come back to our bedroom.
We are having guests for thanksgiving next thursday so prepartions are in full swing. Sam has decided that he wants to do table decorations so we are going crafty for the rest of the week. The lovely ocado man should be delivering all the food on monday so hopefully the cooking will be straight forward. Sam has promised to help with the pies-why am I not surprised!
We are both very excited as M and the boys are coming to visit and we are all going to the space centre. Sam is very put out that Miko can't come, after all he argued they have sent a dog into space so why can't she go and look at rockets. Can't fault his logic but I don't think they will see it that way.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Quiet times
things have been fairly quiet here recently, hence the lack of blogging. There have been lots of normals, visits with friends and lots of family time. We have explored local parks with Miko and just generally enjoyed ourselves. Made an impromtu visit to ashby castle this week as M had not been and it was too nice a day to stay in.
Schoolwise things are going well. Sam is almost finished Singapore 1B math and explode the code 3. He has settled into work and is happy most days to sit down and learn. We are both really enjoying french lessons, they are once a week a now and it is a really nice group. The children are all about sam's age and I think we spend as long after the lesson in the park with them as we do in the lesson itself. Sam is doing well at tennis and swimming and seems to be working hard and paying attention in both.
Schoolwise things are going well. Sam is almost finished Singapore 1B math and explode the code 3. He has settled into work and is happy most days to sit down and learn. We are both really enjoying french lessons, they are once a week a now and it is a really nice group. The children are all about sam's age and I think we spend as long after the lesson in the park with them as we do in the lesson itself. Sam is doing well at tennis and swimming and seems to be working hard and paying attention in both.
Friday, November 10, 2006
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