Harry Potter

Harry Potter had been a interest in our house for about 18 months now. Bean, 9, got the dvd set for Christmas 2015 and has watched them repeatedly over the last year. Today we attended a Harry Potter Book Night hosted by friends and included games, quizes, themed snacks, reading excerts and film watching. A group of about 10 Home Educated children across six familes. Pumpkin, 8, joined in too. S, 12, gave Plum, 5, a tour of her bedroom proving once again that age is no barrier.

And the biggest news was that Bean went with another family as the event clashed with Plum's gymnastic class with 15 miles or so between locations. Pumpkin had a tough time deciding what he was going to do but made a last minute descision to go to the Harry Potter event with Bean.

So today we travelled south to drop off Bean and Pumpkin, travelled North back past home and on to daddy's work to drop off Pippin, 2, and then to gymnastics. Plum is loving gymnaatics and today the coach proved to be fabulous and helped Plum out when she wasn't so sure by running the races with her and offering alternatives when the activities looked too daunting for her.

We picked up Pippin from daddy and then back South again to a different location to collect the Bean and Pumpkin. The boys were full of chat about the Harry Potter event, sharing their pictures and telling us about the snacks. Back home the boys went gaming on Roblox, mummy running up and down the stairs typing messages in chat for them, Plum went and curled up in bed with cbeebies and Pippin had Bing on whilst playing with her Bing plush toys.

The day ended with Bean and mummy quizzing each other on Harry Potter questions that we made up.

Plum is enjoying Charlie and Lola books, Bean reading Narnia: the magicians nephew.