I’ve edited this harshly because there were just too many words. I prefer note form
Monday
Jasper had yet another terrible night.
Got some washing done - really fed up of nappies.
Claudia played on Gameboy (on the loo, eating, walking downstairs etc) hoping the novelty will wear off soon.
Both had fun in the bath.
Managed to find swimming stuff - must spend an hour a day looking for lost crap.
Kids watched Dogtanian.
C has big thing about Paris since Monet, wants to find out about the ‘non-dog Musketeers’.
Nice maths moment - C wanted to know when are we going out and when I replied “In 40 minutes” she said, completely offhand, “cool just 10 more minutes then only half an hour!”
Waited for the postman (Red Banana books from Amazon), he never came.
Had a lovely lunch with my mum.
Claudia did some paper craft, making birthday cards.
(Jasper’s watching Barbie & the Nutcracker for the second time - I need to intervene)
Spent lots of time in the car - usual interesting conversations (rioting in Paris, capital punishment, the idea of the state, responsibilities & rights, racism, immigration, revolution, morality. Enjoyed her lack of moral ambiguity. Also about the brain, neurons, how we learn, brain lateralisation & injury. Oh & what a gradient is.)
Claudia & Simon went swimming.
Jasper & I stayed at home & cuddled.
Claudia made a convection spiral & told me how it worked (hot air rising, cooling, then falling).
Tuesday
C read ‘Midnight in Memphis’ finished just before the postman arrived with the new books (including the sequel to Midnight in Memphis!) much merriment!
Lots of maths - measuring & some number work; C decides to measure everything in centimetres & inches, the only ruler was can find is my yard stick. More merriment as we measure each other!
Think about going out, but have to wait for delivery.
Read about the digestive system (again) & C made a menu of a healthy meal (again).
Did some origami.
C Gameboys.
C does some Brainpop & wants to know more about the Aztecs (isn’t interested in British Museum Aztec Activity Book).
I read to Jasper (Cock-a-moo-moo!) & Claudia pianos.
Jasper pianos & I read to Claudia (George’s Marvellous Medicine for book club).
(The nicest moment of my day at the moment is taking Jasper for his nap - when I ask him if he wants to go to bed for a cuddle & a feed he runs to me (awww) giggling (awwwwwwww) and puts his arms up for a cuddle (aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww). As we go upstairs he pops his head on my shoulder and aaaahhhhhhhs)
Spend afternoon clearing space in the kitchen for the computer & trying to tidy the shelves so we have some hope of finding things.
Si gets home & we stay up late building chairs & computers.
Wednesday
Major trauma with The Haircut (I still feel upset about it).
Claudia spends the whole day on the computer - Brainpop & CBeebies, then decides to have a go at StudyDog (‘It’s easy! It used to be hard but isn’t anymore’) she’s pissed off that they seem to have gone payment only and we haven’t got level 3.
I suggest Big Reading Adventure instead, C soon gets bored.
C spends the next 6 hours on Zoombinis - realises she can work the puzzles out.
Ballet & piano.
Thursday
Piano - had a great lesson, K very pleased with her, C loves it more each time. Will be learning carols next week. We stay & chat, eat chocolate & ooooo at K’s scan pictures. Jasper extra charming.
More Zoombinis when we get home - nearly finished Island Adventure.
Rush out to Jelly Legs - C very pleased to see all her friends (we haven’t been for while). Jasper & I go off to explore town.
Entertain myself by letting Jasper walk around the Oracle, he generates large crowd of admirers, I like being out with a baby 
Get home late, cold & tired.
Simon reads at bedtime - not sure what (Maple Hill Farm & the Monet book)
Friday
Really terrible night with Jasper, shaking with tierdness/caffeine.
More Zoombini’s - C finishes Island Adventure 
Starts playing Pharoah.
Did some number stuff & lots of piano.
Leave for ERAPA early because we’ve always late at the moment - the traffic is awful again. A is already there & the children play in park for a while.
They have a teacher bloke (
) coming with masses of K’nex to build robots. I miss most of it trying to keep J in one place - C really enjoyed it (teacher bloke was amusingly teacherish).
GB in the evening - I’m feeling pretty shit but do the supermarket.
Simon reads again (GMM)
Saturday
Really, really bad night with Jasper.
Simon takes C, Buttercup & Jasper down to Teeny’s party - I crawl into ball & don’t get much done.
I realise it is December - quite a shock.
Sunday
More of the same - C reads, computes & Gameboys.
Read more of GMM & a pile of FIAR books.
Jasper actually sleeps.
Simon books tickets to France for next weekend.
Monday again
C wants to do Thinking Blocks, also do some more measuring (area - figured out the concept of square centimetres by herself
) & mental maths.
More reading (Usborne Begginers).
Loads of Pharoah.
Piano.
Some Getty Dubay & NNE (’ph’), a narration (stilll finds them hard), and nouns.
We watched a couple of episodes of House
.
J & C played rough & tumble games for ages & J chucked stuf fin the bin & the cat litter tray.
Swimming with Si in the evening (just got back)