On the mend.

M is still not well, but is on the mend now.  Today she didn't sleep, but still spent most of the day on the sofa, not knowing really what she wanted to do, if anything.  She was well enough to be bundled into the car, so that K could still go to gymnastics, where other mums (thank you J & A!) helpfully saw K to and from the carpark and A managed to come home from work early enough to take her swimming.

So we have continued with Harry Potter (we've got to the really scary bit now and only have a few more chapters to go) and K & M have also been listening to Alice in Wonderland on cd.  While K was out, I suggested that M and I could play a game while she was ensconced on the sofa.  She agreed and we had a game of Blokus, it was a close game!  After that we had a play making a symmetrical pattern, taking it in turns to put a piece in first and match the other person's piece.  We touched on reflexive and rotational symmetry and then decided to see if we could fit in all the pieces without gaps, which we did.  After we'd finished this, M went and found the Mirror experiment kit and we both had a play with that for a little while.  Later she and I also played the three different version of Top Trumps that we have (London 2012, Roald Dahl and Dinosaurs), which meant a bit of practice of reading numbers in the tens of thousands in the dinosaurs one, something that M sometimes needs a bit of a reminder of if she hasn't seen used them for a while.

Both Blokus and the mirror kit were still out this evening and K took them off to her bedroom when she went to bed.  I must remember to ask her what she got up to with them!