Home ed @ home. We took a much needed day at home today (really should have done it yesterday) and realised that we haven't had a day purely us at home for months. It was the most tranquil pleasantly free flowing day. The boys watched various cartoons and played on cbeebies and minecraft on and off throughout the day at their leisure. We fed and cuddled and cleaned out the guinea pigs, Alex and Charlie, this morning. The guniea pigs are beginning to be more confident with us around and happily played in their run whilst Bean and then Pumpkin and then Plum took turns to sit in with them. They are making happy guinea pig noises now too.
Bean helped me pick produce from the garden and watered in the greenhouse. Plum helped too.
There was lego building and acting out made up stories. Bean continues to be keen to learn to read so we whipped through some phonics and the read a book of his choice together, spotting some sight words and blending some cvc words. i think he knows more than he's letting on but he's so excited to be doing it, it's lovely.
Pumpkin found a foam monster kit that i picked up in a sale and put in the craft boxes. For the first time he wanted me to help him copy one from the picture on the packet (not normally our style) but it didn't last long and he was soon creating his own, much improved, monsters.
I spent a lot of time baking and preserving the garden produce. Pumpkin was watching 'Sarah and Duck' on cbeebies and asked if he could make chocolate bread like Sarah. I think he was rather surprised when I said yes and produced a recipe. Not surprised because we would normally say no but because he didn't really think it was a real thing you could do, just something funny in the story. So this afternoon, Pumpkin and I have mixed, kneaded, proved, knocked back, proved and baked a chocolate loaf. I was thinking we would take it to our first 'not back to school picnic' tomorrow but i suspect it will be gone before this evening is out, it smells so good.
Plum has largely spent her day playing with the water from the paddling pool, pouring and transporting it and paddling in it with her wellies on. And lying down next to the guinea pig run. beautiful. Except when she requested a sleep and a milk feed. She took my hand and walked me upstairs, clearly wanted to get into our bed but just laughed when she got there and saw all the piles of laundry on it. I moved the clothes and she got up and sat on the bed until i was finished and then lay down and asked for milk. i can catergorically say that neither of the boys ever did this, even now Bean will never admit to being tired until he's eyes are closing and Pumpkin will still say he's hungry rather than tired.
p.s I was wrong. We won't be eating the chocolate bread tonight as everyone else is asleep!
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