Groovy

After a very disturbed night, we woke up later than normal, about 9am. We did all the things we normally do, breakfast, feed animals, laundry, we all got dressed too, made dinner together with Plum, 5, and Pippin, 2, and packed a picnic. Bean, 9, and Pumpkin, 7, went and watched The Simpsons in their room. My days are interspersed with "mummy, come and see this" "mummy, let me tell you this funny thing that hapoened" "mum, on this show i was watching..."

Pumpkin got dressed by himself, BY.HIM.SELF. Both boys slept on their bedroom floor last night and they have plans to do the same tonight. Plum, 5, has plans to move her bunk bed into her room so we started to move out some of the toys and dismantled her chair as we prepare to make room.

We went to CHEF in the afternoon and met with two other Home Ed families. We hadn't prepared a story or crafts but Bean was keen for us to do them. He doesn't appear to be that interested when we do do them but it seems that he does enjoy it. The boys mostly used the space to play chasing and fighting and wars and wrestling. They moved outside and played basketball and knocking over cones like skittles. We all painted pictures and dressed up as pirates and tigers and fairies. And we played duck duck goose with our friends.

We came home to eat pizza (after much diliberation between the boys as to whether it should be pizza or fish fingers) The boys went to watch more Simpsons, Plum put Nany McPhee and the big bang on again, Pippin, 2, clung on to Bing, Zula, and Coco and got the Peppa Pig toys out to play with.

After they ate Bean and Pumpkin had a bath, followed by Pippin who then had stories and bed as she hadn't slept today at all. Bean had a headache and went to bed about 9pm with Pumpkin too although he was struggling and tearful so didn't actually go to sleep until 12pm. Plum snuggled on the sofa with mummy for an hour, followed by daddy for another hour before going to bed about 10pm.

Pippin spent the day without a nappy again with no success until daddy came home when she used the potty three times.