Who’s Normal Anyway?

Have to say I wasn’t with it enough to start taking photos first thing. M got up about 7am and went downstairs to play Sonic. We slowly got breakfast done and came back upstairs to get dressed and bedroom jobs done (sort of). I put washing on and M got out his spelling things, so we did that first. It’s never fast while L is awake and we had numerous interuptions for the phone, pottying L, hugs, watching what L was doing.

M had wanted to do some typing practice but I got sidetracked looking at what Schools Radio programmes are on this term and we ended up listening to Time and Tune about Huan Tsang who travelled the Silk Road to bring Buddhist writings to China from India.

M had a chocolate egg break and did some typing practice while I hung out the washing with L. He was excited he didn’t need to use the keyboard guide on level one, but is very eager to get as far as using the shift keys.

Continuing on with his Leonardo da Vinci project, M drew a portrait of himself while L was roaming the front room and playing.

Then we talked about the Mona Lisa and I read out some info from the internet while L fed to sleep and M styled my hair. Very nice head massage and hair combing (except when he stuck me with the pencil point!)

I put L down for a nap upstairs and M watched some schools TV about science, then started playing Sonic again.

A came home, having been away since Monday, so we all sat and chatted for an hour or so before he had to go into work.

M asked if we could get out the Lego Mindstorms kit and we had that out for a couple of hours in the afternoon. I needed to sort out the Tower set up to connect it to the computer and M was aiming to build the first model to go back through the tutorial again. We were slightly hampered by a roving small baby though Just about managed to keep him out of the Lego box.

M decided he didn’t want to keep building if I was hanging the washing out so was persuaded to help a bit.

He wanted to call for the lad next door but it was too early so M did some maths arrow games for a bit. (Look says, “Are you STILL taking pictures?”)

The boy next door didn’t want to play so I took M and L round to the playpark and M gradually involved himself in a Star Wars game with some slightly older boys. (He says he gave them tips from the films).

We came home for tea and afterwards M got into pyjamas and we all watched Valiant on DVD and ate popcorn. Then it was bedtime.