Welcome back returning readers!!

Just a quick hello to Lloyds Mom and Dad.....they finally have high speed internet and can read my blog again - it's been a while.

Welcome back to civilization Terry and Chris! I hope you are enjoying retirement Terry and that Chris isn't getting too fat from all the baking you are doing!

Sad news...

We had some sad news today - Lloyds Mom wrote to say that my friends brother had died. I went to school with Victoria, and she had a little brother, Robert, who was always hanging around when we were trying to play at her house.....like most siblings I remember Victoria sending him away and telling him he was annoying us!

I'm not in touch with Victoria any more but her parents still live in the same village Lloyd and I grew up in, and they are friends with Lloyds parents. My Mom will occasionally see her parents to say hello to.

Anyway, Robert was only 32. It just seems so unfair and so sad.

Louise - you may remember Victoria - she was in Britannia I think (maybe not...) ...very tall and very thin....quiet.

Keeping little ones busy....

While A was busy doing her writing, I kept S busy with pompoms.....He had two bowls and had to pick up the tiny pompoms with tweezers and then drop them into the other bowl. It helped him with his pincer grip, and with hand-eye co-ordination. He enjoyed that for a while, and then I used an idea from Daisy's blog montessorihomeschooler.blogspot.com/ to give him a spoon and he spooned the pompoms from one bowl to another...this kept him busy for quite a while :)

Todays book..

Todays books were 'Are You Quite Polite' by Alan Katz and David Catrow which is actually a book of silly songs about boys who pick boogers all day long and people who drink out of the toilet - yucky ideas but the kind of thing that children LOVE!

We also read 'The Leaves Are Falling One By One' by Steve Metzger - and this is the book that A decided to add to her book report book (which she is doing in these pictures).

She also spent a long while playing games at:

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/index.shtml

Which are the BBC's educational pages with games and activities for children during the elementary years...

A new week...

Monday started with reading a few books in bed....and a relaxing morning for the most part as A was up at 5am and quite tired from it.

Yesterday was a gorgeous Fall day, 18c and far too nice to stay indoors. We headed to the playground in town for a little picnic and a walk by the lake. We met a homeschooling friend of A's and of course she was delighted! They had fun on the playground while I chatted to N's Mom.

Yesterday was L's 12th birthday, so the evening was spent having a birthday dinner and then ice cream cake....

It was a fairly easy, quiet day which suited us after a busy weekend and a few disturbed nights.

This morning A and S have been playing 'shops' with all the tins from the pantry as their store supplies....we were supposed to go swimming after visiting a friend, but we have to visit with the friend after lunch now, so we decided to forget about swimming today. Next week we will be swimming almost daily so it didn't seem so important today!