Music Thursday
Yesterday we had a pyjama day, except not in PJs because we went out to baby weighing clinic first thing and I thought we might get comments if we weren’t dressed LOL. M and I played Runescape together and he played some other games on the computer and watched TV and read his new Lego Club magazine. L played, watched the babies on our Tiny Talk DVD, fiddled with keys and holes and the buttons on the front of the computer and toddled to the shop and back with me. He wanted to stay and ride on the train in the shop entrance though so in the end I carried him part way home.
Today we were out by 9.30am to go to baby signing. That was fun and then we went to the supermarket to buy some bits and pieces and then get some lunch. Afterwards we drove a bit further to the hall where the home ed music classes are held. A very nice man from Norfolk education’s music dept comes along to do music with 5 - 10 year olds and this term it’s going from monthly to fortnightly. Today’s session was a recap of what they were doing before the summer holidays - talking about pulse and rhythm and copying clapping patterns, then lots of work on clapping various parts of the body and crossing over from left to right and doing both hands at once doing different things - so lots of body work as well as music. They also did some singing but the lesson is only 45 mins so it goes really fast. L sat on my knee and we joined in too.
Afterwards all the older children went out to the playground just outside to play. The hall is part of a village hall / social / sports club. There’s one lad there that rubs M up the wrong way and they just spent most of the time antagonising one another. He is a year younger than M but is obviously used to being in charge and is quite loud and forceful, which M doesn’t take sitting down. They ended up scrapping a bit even though I warned M to just keep out of his way if they can’t get on. All the other parents stayed in the hall and chatted but with trying to keep an eye on M and then L wandering about trying to eat gravel and bark chippings if we went outside, I didn’t get much chatting in.
When we got home M played out on his rollerblades for a bit then the lad next door came round to see one of M’s computer games for a while. A came home and we got some tea and just as we sat down the organic veg box arrived. We’ve been planning to get one for ages and then last week we got a flyer through the door and found out they are now deleivering here, so we ordered. We’ve got a big box of veg to decide what to do with now. There’s a really good variety - potatoes, onions and carrots (pretty standard) and then some parsnips, 2 large beetroot, big bag of French beans, broccoli, a pumpkin, 2 leeks and a bag of small plum tomatoes.
M’s just gone out to Beavers and I’m sitting down with a cuppa and to catch up with A’s day.
