In Other News...

Chip has taken to painting a lot just lately (that and endlessly doing puzzles)

On this day we started out with sponge painting,

but it rapidly warped into finger painting

and then generally making a 'lovely' mess!

There is a reason so many of my children went to playgroup!!

We've had a few warmer days ~ not many, just a few



And one of these days Bugs decided to give DD some tennis tips.



He turned out to be pretty quick off the mark!



How did I come to have such sporty boys? ;D

A Glimpse...

That's how yesterday afternoon looked here: Lilo giving Stitch skipping lessons, Bugs giving DD tennis lessons & Chip pottering about amongst them all :D

DD has his first gym competition this Sunday ( just vault and floor). He's apprehensive. I'm wondering if it's going to be worth it! It's a REALLY early start, a 2 hr round trip to Wigan (meaning the whole family have to miss to church) and then 2 hrs there for about 5 mins of competing! Thinking he won't be doing too many of these just yet, but hopefully it'll be a good experience for him.

Give a Boy (II) ...

... A Stick!

and it can be so many things...

Maybe a thrashing instrument..?

but on this occasion mostly a javelin!

The Olympics lives on :D

Photographic Catch-Up Post

Taking pictures is what I 'do' these days ~ it's quicker to keep a record with a snapshot than it is with a whole load of words. Editing images is so much more me than editing words too, so pictures it is for this post! I hope it gives you a little flavour of life here right now and where the kids are at. Next week we are taking a 'non-book-week'. We haven't had one of those for a while - ages in fact. I can't face three weeks of being nagged into screen time x 7, but the kids all want to 'break-up' as many of their friends do tomorrow. We agreed a compromise ;-) ! So next week will not involve any textbooks, and consequently probably very little written work, probably a fair amount of school-screen-time and as much arts, crafts and sporty time as they like! I believe the weather is going to be good, so hopefully much of it will take place in the garden :).

this is candle making

That's a yellow Jolly Phonics reader in her hand ~ she's finished Headsprout at last  and is well on the road now :D

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I think you maybe get the general idea ;-)

And if you're not too sick of my pictures yet, you can see them all bigger if you click on them!

Fun in the Sun

Check out today's story HERE - rather than posting it twice!! :D

There's not much more to say really!

It's been a good one.

Today was the CHEDDERS Sports Day...

Chedders is 'Cheshire Home Edders'.

'Here are some snaps from the day :)