Lazy day

Had a very lazy start to our day today J came and woke me at 7.30am which is known as a lie in at our house. We had a lovely cuddle up in bed with Dad and baby B. 'Beckbast' as S calls it was especially lazy taking us to past 9am. I listened in on the pony play while I fed B, the ponies were off to darlingland!

I'd bought a few second hand books the other day and J showed an interest in Little Women so I read a couple of chapters, can't remember having read this story before although I feel like I should have done. It wasn't easy reading and I was a bit dubious about the possible religious leanings but still J was interested in the descriptions of the girls in the story and kept having a guess at which one was which. S just enjoyed cuddling up I think she just likes my docile tones!

After Little Women S chose 'Rabbits busy day' which was nice light relief from LW!
I then left them to get dressed while I attempted to print off some words, J loves me printing off words she can have a go at reading it and find a place to stick it so most of our house is labelled! I tried to print off 'Uncle' and 'piano' (not related!) J came and tried to help but we couldn't figure out what was wrong. I had some other previously printed words so armed with blu tac and a pile of labels she ran off round the house and now in case anyone doesn't know where it is, the toilet door is clearly labelled 'toilet door' !

Somehow we moved into making story books downstairs, I think it might of happened from chatting about the books we like to read. I made them both a makeshift book with cover just stapling a pile of plain paper in between 2 coloured sheets, they were very impressed and both set about creating their masterpieces. They both drew all the pictures themselves and if I find a way of uploading them I shall post it here. J told me the words she wanted to write and I spelt them out for her to write, S told me what she wanted to say and I wrote it in her book for her. They loved the finished stories and I think I read them about 20 times each! B woke so the girls got on with making their lunch, S can now spread the butter and make a pretty good cheese sandwich. J only needs my help with cutting now.

After lunch I put out some jigsaws upstairs which J loves and was very proud of herself doing the jungle one all by herself (she usually needs my help) I played downstairs with real baby, dolly baby and S! when B was tired of playing mummy's and babies I put her to bed. cleared away lunch stuff as S wanted to paint. I gave her the finger paint pots as she nearly always ends up wanting to use her hands! I still gave her a paintbrush which she used for about 5 minutes before dipping, scooping and slapping paint on having a wonderful dreamy time. left her to enjoy while I got the bricks out upstairs at J's request. Both happy so I had a quick hoover and tidy round (I manage to get it done once a week maybe ;0P)

one thing I am learning is you can't be house proud and home educate! S had painted the dining table a glorious yellow when I finished and herself a lovely pink. I let her carry on till she'd had enough then I filled the sink and let her play in the water while I cleaned the table. Then we made a yummy hot chocolate and had a very chocolaty biscuit or 2 while I fed B who had woke in a lovely smiley mood.

And so our day went on very relaxed throughout and we talked about so much: Grandad and death (recurring thoughts since he died a few months ago), how stories are structured, girls names and shortened versions, luminous writing for fire exits, biscuits - to dip or not to dip?