Working backwards…

Wednesday 5th March = World Maths Day
Having just managed to register in time, the boys spent much of the day doing sums on the WMD website 🙂 Unfortunately a fair bit of that time was spent waiting for the website to untwist its knickers and let them move from one game to the next. And it only gave them addition. Still, it was maths – and they both gathered enough points to play some cool games as rewards 🙂
As well as maths there was Drama in the morning, which they both love, and while the boys were doing that L was happily doing activities with E while I got to cuddle baby S, at least until A got too jealous… We stayed there for lunch and I managed to validate my parking ticket this time, which made a big difference to cost! Two more weeks of drama in this block, and the boys are really looking forward to it 😀
Oh, and then there was gymnastics, which they love too, but which means another hour or more of waiting around for L. Usually she doesn’t mind, and sometimes finds a similarly circumstanced girl or two to play with, but this time she was tired and a bit whingy and it was a relief when Bob arrived, quite unexpectedly, having been dropped off at the gym rather than at home and about an hour earlier than we had expected 😀 He and L took the boys to Badgers while I fed A, then we went to Sainsbury’s for petrol and odds and ends and found that early evening midweek is a good time for reduced items 😉

Tuesday – swimming happened, although J would rather it hadn’t 😛
When we got back we were all a bit tired and grumpy so suggesting work was never going to go down well, but J surprised me by stomping off with his English book and then reappearing a little later with a fully completed exercise to show me 😀 Having found a link we registered and then counted practising on the World Maths Day site as maths; J again surprised me by doing a page of maths as well. Actually, it’s a good job I’ve written this, as I’d almost forgotten – I must thank him for being so helpful 🙂 (Btw the first part of the exercise was to make a list, in order of importance, of five things you would like to do. J’s list reads:
1. Be a millionare (sic)
2. drive a car
3. Have a baby brother
4. Have a DS Lite
5. Have a nintendo wii
Then he had to write about why he chose number one and what it would be like if he could do it.
“I chose number one because if I was a millionare (sic) I could buy things for my freinds (sic) and family like slings for Mummy and a DS for Kit, Libby and me.”

Aw bless – sometimes he can be such a sweetie!

Monday – CHEF sports 🙂 We were late, thanks to disorganisation and traffic 🙁
K did the younger children’s one, while L watched and J played with J, then J did the older one while K watched and played; L played with E, watched and generally mooched. We took birthday buns with pink icing to share – icing not as fluffy as it was but not soggy at least. Went to park with Susan and K, then home for lunch. Big Alice came over in the afternoon to bring L’s b’day present – a bubble-blowing sky dancer toy which found instant favour with all the children but was soon stranded on the roof waiting for Daddy and a stepladder…