Pick your Posture

Today started off with an impromptu yoga session brought about by these cards that i made last night....



Emily has been joining in with my yoga sessions over the past week and really enjoying them. I remembered these photos Meg posted about a while back and set to work!



1. emily_cobra, 2. lion pose, 3. triangle, 4. triangle_duet

I've been thinking for a while now that it was about time we tackled grammar with Emily so I've been busy putting together the Montessori farm kit. I had a free kit from here but ended up purchasing one from Montessori For Everyone too. I plan to start this next week with her.

Isaac has been a little monkey today, really mischievous, mainly i think because he's tired. He had a busy day at nursery yesterday and no nap on the way home. I had thought that he would be a breeze to put to bed but i think by the time we got there he was over-tired and it was gone 8 when he finally succumbed!

We began Story of the World again today, after a month and a half break! Emily was pleased to find she was able to tie in the Kingfisher books she got from Auntie Sarah for her birthday. We're back on to Egyptians again (Middle Kingdom)

A good couple of weeks, long overdue :o)

We've been struggling with E's increasingly stroppy behaviour for a while now. Don't know if it's an age thing or what but it was certainly making the whole HE thing very unworkable for a while. Here's hoping we are over that particular hurdle for now.

We've been doing a fair bit of socialising the last couple of weeks (and in the process trying to catch chickenpox - but so far haven't). I've signed them both up to a new Tatty Bumpkin yoga class that starts in a couple of months. Run by someone i found via Freecycle! It's lovely to have something both E and I can do at the same time! Will be interesting to see how Isaac copes with it though. I've not done any yoga with him since he discovered he could roll everywhere. He's not known for his moments of calm!!

His favourite pastime at the moment is giving himself a yogurt facial and deep conditioning hair treatment - loooovely.

On the schooly front Emily is enjoying lots of maths. She has been doing some place value work with the base ten blocks, subtraction, fractions, multiplication and she has shown an interest in telling the time. She had some fun with this site. I bought a Reader Rabbit maths CD-ROM today but we haven't had a look at that yet.

I'm so amazed with how her reading is coming on. She was given an abridged version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and started reading it to a friend the other day. I think she quite surprised herself!

I've been trying to prioritise my craft projects list, i have over 50 on there at the moment! Just when i decide which 4 i am going to concentrate on in the coming months Hillary goes and announces that the new winter Stitchettes are nearly ready - and they are so adorable!

I feel a definite need to get back into a proper project as i haven't made anything thing since the begining of the year except for a couple of cards.

Meet Priscilla!