Still here..

haven't run off to the tropics or given up blogging honest. They days just seem to have flown by lately and I am too brain dead by the end of the day to blog. I am also doing a lot of transcribing work and seem to spend my evenings typing up somone else's words, leaving little time to type my own.

Things here are settling into a new sort of routine based on M's new schedule. Some weeks he is home more in the day than he was previously and we are all enjoying spending more time together. He and Sam have started doing science experiments on friday mornings which sam is loving. The week before last they got out M's microscope and looked at plant cells and did a few experiments around them. They didn't do anything last week as were at Legoland.


Legoland was a fun but soggy day. Sam had been on a high for the week prior to our visit and kept an almost hourly countdown! We set off at the crack of dawn and actually arrived before they opened. It was more crowded than we expected but we didn't really have to wait at any of the rides. Sam went on his first grown up roller coaster and he and I screamed the whole ride! He said that he enjoyed it but didn't want to do it again until next year. I think his fav ride was driving school and he managed to drive over a roundabout and run a few lights-despite all this they gave him a drivers license! We managed to get through all the rides that he wanted to do before the heavens opened. We then headed for the main shop so that he could spend the money that was burning a hole in his pocket. He was very grown up and spend a long time considering just how to spend his money. In the end he bought some batman lego (in the sale) and an evil bionicle. We then lunched in the car and headed home. He had the bionicle put together almost before we left the car park! All in all it was a good day and sam is already planning our trip next year. This time we have vowed to go when it isn't raining as we seem fated to only see legoland through a haze of drizzle.


Sam's friend D came for a sleepover weekend before last and the two boys had a ball, they didn't sleep but they had a ball. From about 4am they openned our door about every half an hour to see if we were awake. We were but there was no way we were letting them know that. D was so shattered that he was asleep 10 minutes after his parents picked him up. D was a pleasure to have as a guest and we hope that he will want to come and stay again.

Schoolwise things are ticking along. Sam is enjoying learning cursive and has even started leaving me little notes. We got a letts math workbook today and he was so excited by the wizards and goblins in it that the actually asked to do a few pages on his own!