Well that was exciting. Trojan Hero had been napping on my lap most of the evening, woke up and was being the smiliest he's been all day when Papacrow started talking to him.
'Do you feel better now?' He asks.
Trojan Hero beams from ear to ear and then explosively vomits all over me, to Papacrow's huge shock.
Monday, 20 May 2013
Music Monday
What with all the talk around the same sex marriage bill, and papacrow's choice of song this week, I felt inspired to do protest songs today.
Here's five of the best, in my opinion -
Bob Marley, Redemption Song
Tracy Chapman, Behind the wall
John Lennon, Imagine
Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit
The Black Eyed Peas, Where is the Love
Here's five of the best, in my opinion -
Bob Marley, Redemption Song
Tracy Chapman, Behind the wall
John Lennon, Imagine
Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit
The Black Eyed Peas, Where is the Love
A pox upon this house
Yeah, we still need a big fat cross on our door!
Petal & Fluff are all better, just few spots not completely faded yet. Dot's mostly all scabbed over, and hers are fading. Trojan Hero's started scabbing over but is still a bit misog - poor boy, he has spots on his tongue :(
However, despite the day being a bit cold and rainy and sad, we still managed to have some fun - there was table time, of course, and new essay topics (David Grey, Beethoven and Jack Johnson, if you're interested). We used cuisenaire rods, did lots of maths, wrote stories with the story cubes, used marker pens on the whiteboards to draw and practice letters and numbers.
I sent Petal off to choose a chapter book for me to read to her, and to my great joy she came back with Winging It by Annie Dalton, the first in the Agent Angel series - one I stumbled over some years ago and loved, and / have been waiting for her to be old enough for me to share it with her!
We watched a new episode of Coast which was all about beaches and included a large section on Dungeness which was interesting as we're hoping to be part of Home Ed group going to the bird preserve there next month. Petal, Dot and I also did some water colour painting.
Papacrow, Fluff and Petal popped down to the allotment in the drizzle with our collected veg and fruit scraps for the compost heap, while Dot and I made a lemon drizzle cake (insert your own witty joke about rain drizzle and cake drizzle here - I did try to formulate one, but my brain is fried). Roo and Wig played lots of lego games and Saurus got stuck into maths, history, essay research and opted for some indoor fittness (push ups, stomach crunches etc. rather than try tennis in the rain.
There was tiding, and Papacrow and Fluff went out to Fluff's football class with Granddad kindly driving so I could stay home with the poxy Trojan Hero. Saurus watched some Avengers cartoon, Petal opted for Dungeons and Dragons and there was various lego games and so on on the laptop. Trojan Hero was a bit fussy, so we had a nice rock on the rocking chair and I read The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse to him. I also made curry with left over pork from the Sunday roast yesterday, and there were lots of stories after baths.
I then helped Fluff have a turn on the laptop (there wasn't time for him to have a go before dinner), then played a magic game with Wig, then watched Only Connect with Roo and Papacrow. We do enjoy that quiz!
Over the weekend we enjoyed the Dr Who finale and Eurovision. Papacrow and I had a useful meeting with Saurus where we aired concerns and sorted out a written schedule for him as somethings (like cricket practice and history and geography) are being to be forgotten about! We're going to try and make this meeting a regular check in thing. We also discussed the possibility of him having a TV in his room - something that's not going to happen until the begining of next year, as he will need birthday money to accomplish this.
Other future plans include dragging out our poor forgotten desk top computer and giving it to Roo so he can do stop animation to his hearts content and possibly also minecraft. This is going to take some organising first though, sorting out old documents and updating virus software etc.
I'm supposed to going to the dentist tomorrow. Trojan Hero isn't entirely scabbed over though. Papacrow has quite correctly pointed out I can feed him and then leave him at home (with Papacrow) but I'm torn. I'll see how he is tomorrow and how I feel about it tomorrow, and I can always rearrange it - I've already had to do this earlier in the month, they know we've got the pox!
Petal & Fluff are all better, just few spots not completely faded yet. Dot's mostly all scabbed over, and hers are fading. Trojan Hero's started scabbing over but is still a bit misog - poor boy, he has spots on his tongue :(
However, despite the day being a bit cold and rainy and sad, we still managed to have some fun - there was table time, of course, and new essay topics (David Grey, Beethoven and Jack Johnson, if you're interested). We used cuisenaire rods, did lots of maths, wrote stories with the story cubes, used marker pens on the whiteboards to draw and practice letters and numbers.
I sent Petal off to choose a chapter book for me to read to her, and to my great joy she came back with Winging It by Annie Dalton, the first in the Agent Angel series - one I stumbled over some years ago and loved, and / have been waiting for her to be old enough for me to share it with her!
We watched a new episode of Coast which was all about beaches and included a large section on Dungeness which was interesting as we're hoping to be part of Home Ed group going to the bird preserve there next month. Petal, Dot and I also did some water colour painting.
Papacrow, Fluff and Petal popped down to the allotment in the drizzle with our collected veg and fruit scraps for the compost heap, while Dot and I made a lemon drizzle cake (insert your own witty joke about rain drizzle and cake drizzle here - I did try to formulate one, but my brain is fried). Roo and Wig played lots of lego games and Saurus got stuck into maths, history, essay research and opted for some indoor fittness (push ups, stomach crunches etc. rather than try tennis in the rain.
There was tiding, and Papacrow and Fluff went out to Fluff's football class with Granddad kindly driving so I could stay home with the poxy Trojan Hero. Saurus watched some Avengers cartoon, Petal opted for Dungeons and Dragons and there was various lego games and so on on the laptop. Trojan Hero was a bit fussy, so we had a nice rock on the rocking chair and I read The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse to him. I also made curry with left over pork from the Sunday roast yesterday, and there were lots of stories after baths.
I then helped Fluff have a turn on the laptop (there wasn't time for him to have a go before dinner), then played a magic game with Wig, then watched Only Connect with Roo and Papacrow. We do enjoy that quiz!
Over the weekend we enjoyed the Dr Who finale and Eurovision. Papacrow and I had a useful meeting with Saurus where we aired concerns and sorted out a written schedule for him as somethings (like cricket practice and history and geography) are being to be forgotten about! We're going to try and make this meeting a regular check in thing. We also discussed the possibility of him having a TV in his room - something that's not going to happen until the begining of next year, as he will need birthday money to accomplish this.
Other future plans include dragging out our poor forgotten desk top computer and giving it to Roo so he can do stop animation to his hearts content and possibly also minecraft. This is going to take some organising first though, sorting out old documents and updating virus software etc.
I'm supposed to going to the dentist tomorrow. Trojan Hero isn't entirely scabbed over though. Papacrow has quite correctly pointed out I can feed him and then leave him at home (with Papacrow) but I'm torn. I'll see how he is tomorrow and how I feel about it tomorrow, and I can always rearrange it - I've already had to do this earlier in the month, they know we've got the pox!
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Music in May
So the project this month is music. We enjoy listening to lots of different music, and this month I want to give them a basic introduction to music theory - notation and so on, we'll probably refresh our knowledge of the orchestra too. There are several musical workshops happening through the shines and we're going to utilise our piano, keyboard, records, ocarina, guitar etc and try and get everyone having a go at making music.
We've got the following out of the library -
Usborne Introduction to Music
Learning to Read Music, Peter Nickol
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments, Max Wade-Mathews
Inside the music - the musician's guide to composition, improvisation, and the mechanics of music, Dave Stewart
Making Musical Instruments from junk, Nick Penny
From our shelves -
The Incredible Story of Classical Music: A Friendly Guide for Children, Darren Henley
The Best of the Beatles: Complete Words and Music
You know, for a very musical family I was surprised we have so few books on music! Time to raid my mum's house I feel.
Essays so far have been on Jack Johnson's To the Sea, Professor Elemental's Indifference Engine, Mike Oldfield's Tuberlar Bells, Surf Music, Heavy Metal and Rock.
We've got the following out of the library -
Usborne Introduction to Music
Learning to Read Music, Peter Nickol
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments, Max Wade-Mathews
Inside the music - the musician's guide to composition, improvisation, and the mechanics of music, Dave Stewart
Making Musical Instruments from junk, Nick Penny
From our shelves -
The Incredible Story of Classical Music: A Friendly Guide for Children, Darren Henley
The Best of the Beatles: Complete Words and Music
You know, for a very musical family I was surprised we have so few books on music! Time to raid my mum's house I feel.
Essays so far have been on Jack Johnson's To the Sea, Professor Elemental's Indifference Engine, Mike Oldfield's Tuberlar Bells, Surf Music, Heavy Metal and Rock.
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Have you ever wondered what do by way of bedtime stories?
Wonder no more, but pop over to my husband's blog and enjoy!
Wonder no more, but pop over to my husband's blog and enjoy!
A Very Spotty Dotty
Yes, you read that right. I thought we'd dodged a bullet on this one, as Petal and Fluff's pox was preceded by a few days of Dot being grumpy and having an odd spot on her arm, so I wondered if she'd had chicken pox but with just one spot.
No.
She is SMOTHERED, poor sausage. Petal and Fluff had a good covering of spots each, but Dot has them EVERYWHERE, inside her ears, all over her 'nappy area' if you get my drift, in her hair, everywhere.
Trojan Hero has, so far, a handful of suspicious looking spots and two or three properly blistered, definitely pox like ones.
I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings...
No.
She is SMOTHERED, poor sausage. Petal and Fluff had a good covering of spots each, but Dot has them EVERYWHERE, inside her ears, all over her 'nappy area' if you get my drift, in her hair, everywhere.
Trojan Hero has, so far, a handful of suspicious looking spots and two or three properly blistered, definitely pox like ones.
I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings...
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