Friends

We pretended spring was coming today and met with about 9 other home ed families, who we haven't seen collectively for the hibernation period, in the park. This was after our usual Little Verse and gymnastics routine. It was so nice to see friends again all together and for the children to resume to normal relations and form some new ones. I noticed Pumpkin playing along with O, which I'm not sure he did last year. It would be nice for him to form a friendship outside his brother's loop, having said that, I love the relationship that they have and I wouldn't want it to change. Pumpkin also noted that one of the other families there had left a child "in the car" ( was his suggestion, in reality he was safely at home with another responsible adult) and that the park didn't feel right without him and it made Pumpkin sad.

Plum really enjoyed her morning singing and was busy trying out all the actions. She had a sleep during gymnastics and was very quiet during the cold spell in the park. Things did not improve when we arrived home. She had a milk feed and feel asleep so I put her in the sling and she slept for another two hours. She woke up and had another milk feed and ate but was very clingy and grumpy, acting very tired but not sleeping until finally she fell asleep on daddy's knee. Hope she's not sickening for the boys cough/cold.

Bean has been much improved today both in health and temperament, which is good because I was not looking forward to managing similar situations to yesterday solo. He even managed to skip food all morning and through gymnastics and the park and remain calm. He ate as soon as we got home, though, which was not surprising considering.