Very busy bodies!

I was woken this morning by M reminding me that I had *promised* we could go to the park with friends after the 2 hours of gymnastics this afternoon and she was very unhappy when I reminded her that I had indeed said that we could *if* it wasn't raining. 

Before we got to that point though, K discovered the felt skeleton that I had left out in the front room and wanted to dive straight in and put it together before breakfast.  However, since she wasn't up until not far off 10 o'clock and we needed to have an early lunch to make it to gymnastics for 1 o'clock, I insisted that she have breakfast first.  While she was having breakfast, M, who is a much earlier riser than her sister or me, got busy sticking down the paper skeleton from yesterday.



K managed to finish breakfast and get herself half dressed before she got going with the felt skeleton.  She did pretty well assembling it, only needing a bit of help getting some of the pieces the right way round on the correct side and with the shoulder blades and collar bones.  She needed a bit more help with the labels, which come in 'English' and 'Latin', for example skull and cranium, although there is also 'ribs' and 'Ribs'! 

M came along and, once I'd taken it all to pieces again, had a go too.  She had seen K doing the last little bit of the labelling, which I think helped a bit. 

We have agreed that we're all finding this subject interesting, so we're going to carry on with it, concentrating on different aspects as we go along.  For the moment we're going to stick with the bones and then add the muscles.

After lunch we went of to gymnastics, which they are both still enjoying immensely and both have completed British Proficiency Core Gymnastics Level 8.  After the two hours of gymnastics, it was not raining fortunately, so we did go to the park with friends for half an hour or so, before coming home for a cup of tea and some bread and jam before heading off for their swimming lesson.  I usually have a sit down and read for half an hour while they swim, but today had to dash back home because I'd managed to forget to pick up the bag with their towels in!  Not the first time I've done that, but fortunately the nice lady at reception lent them swimming hats, because you're not allowed to swim without them, and the girls' were in the bag with the towels.  I just about managed to get back in time for the end of their lesson.  Phew!