Back to those statistics.

This morning, while K & M were playing Phase 10 with each other (as a change from with me!), I put all of those ages and heights into a graph.  As I suspected, neither K nor M was particularly interested, but they were interested enough to briefly talk about the concept of using graphs to show information about two different things and about the general correlation between age and height that then levels off when people stop growing (very useful having C's two grown up children's heights!).  It's not unusual for me to think that K & M might be interested in something and have them throw a cursory glance at it, or us have a brief conversation and then move on, only for me to find out months later that a lot more went in that was apparent at the time.

Thursday afternoon is still busy with gymnastics and swimming lessons, even without piano lessons while K & M's lovely teacher is in her post-operative incapacited state.  Gymnastics was focussed on cartwheels today, which is just what K & M had been hoping for, and while they're still not quite there, it's very clear that they are making good progress.
In between gymnastics and swimming M announced that she wanted to bake, and we just about managed to fit in the baking, decorating (and the all important licking of bowls) before heading off for swimming. 


The fairy cakes - decorated as dogs, aliens and just randomly.

M decorated most of them, K the one on the right and I did the ones on the left as we were running out of time.  While M was baking, K was busy starting on some scratch art that she'd been given for her birthday and doing a bit of sewing.  She made a top for a teddy that was a late birthday present that arrived today from Great Aunty A.  An interesting design, it's two rectangles of felt, sewn down one side with a hole for the arm and with the bottom of the other side stitched together and a button on the shoulder.

Over tea, K & M had put on a story cd from the library in which an old, sick dog is put down.  K asked why we don't do that to people, so we paused the cd to have a conversation about euthanasia.  K generally sees things as pretty much black and white, but I think she did appreciate that it's not always that simple.