Things that have been found.

Sometimes I find out what K & M have been up to only when I come to download photos from the camera.  So these are the first things that have been found.



K & M played Carcassonne with A while I was out yesterday, then K had a play with the pieces but not the rules

K, M & A spent most of yesterday afternoon in the garden (I was inside continuing my current project of learning to crochet) and when pruning A found this.

This morning we have been being crafty.  At her request, I've been teaching M how to do a bit more crochet (so far she's just been making chains), so we've each started making a little flower like this one.  I found it in one of the many books I got from the library and it consists entirely of chain stitch and slip stitch.

Here's one I made earlier.

Photos are not allowed so far, but she's doing really well despite getting a bit frustrated at times.

K meanwhile was doing French knitting, with a rather pretty French knitting doll that she was given for her birthday last year.  Both girls had had a go with a cotton reel at Calke Abbey sometime last year, but K hadn't got round to having a go at home and had completely forgotten how to do it.  She didn't ask for help though and easily followed the instruction booklet to remind herself.

 

A break for lunch and K is letting M have a go with the doll and teaching her how to French knit too, which seems to have led to an outbreak of French!  K has been looking at a set of first English-French books including this one, in the evening recently (I know because they've been scattered all over the floor of her bedroom!).  From the next room, A & I suddenly heard counting in French up to 29 and a few random words, followed by things like 'Mummy!  Une pomme, s'il vous plaît!' and 'Je voudrais une banane rose!' and running off with 'le jambon' from the fridge with lots of giggling.  Considering we haven't really done any French since we got back from Paris in March, I was very impressed and as I said to A it's times like this that show that leaving them to their own devices really does work!