Sunny day..

at last!! Don't mean to be weather lady here but this afternoon the sun came out for the first time in ages. To celebrate the sunshine sam and the dogs and I took ourselves out on a walk and ended up in one of the local parks. Sam instantly made 2 new best friends and had a ball playing with them. A fourth little boy whom we already knew showed up with his dad and the four boys charged around like mad. It was one of the first times that that has happened, ususally the park is either empty or full of older children. Considering that none of the boys (except sam and J) knew each other they all played really well and shared the kite and helicopter toy that two of the boys had. The dogs took great delight in pulling me across the park while they chased the kite. Rogue especially was determined to prove that he could jump high enough to catch it and I have the pulled arms to prove it. We could have stayed there all afternoon but after a while Rogue grew increasingly frustrated that he couldn't catch the kite and wanted to be on the move again.


It has been a busy week, we did school work on monday, followed by a play session with V & I yesterday that also encompased a trip into the city center for a historic walk around castle park. It was part of the Castle Park Festival and was billed as walk and talk about the Smashing Saxons and Nasty Normans. Given the title we though that it was going to be a horrible history style walk but alas it wasn't. It was a great walk, the guide was interesting and very knowledgeable but he did not do it a la Terry Deary. C & D met us there and it was nice to see them. I think all the boys enjoyed the talk but sam was disapointed that it was not more gruesome!! We ended up at jewry wall museum where the boys played at being archaeologists and created mosaic pictures. All in all it was a nice afternoon out but not quite as advertised.

Things are a bit stop start with formal school work, we are working on an every other day basis this week! Monday we did tons of formal stuff and tuesday too and even managed to fit in the field trip. Today we concentrated on economics (sam counting out his money to buy lego), art (painting warhammer) and PE a long walk followed by working out with daddy in the new garage gym. You can also add to that social skills as he had long chats with all the shop assistants we encountered, especially the guys in games workshop. They were very impressed that he took his space marines on vacation to paint them.

Tomorrow we are having another formal session in the morning followed by a field trip in the afternoon in search of grandad's fav sausages.

He finished the Big Wild Read this week and seems a bit underwhelmed by the scheme this year. I don't think the stickers are so appealing anymore and I don't think this year's theme was very exciting. Being 'green' is important but sam enjoyed it when it was about pirates and space.