The girls have really enjoyed having Nana & Little Grandad here. It's there first trip down to see us for over a year, due to my father-in-law's declining health, and we'd been a bit concerned how well he'd cope here, but it's gone okay.
On Saturday it was M's First Communion. We had had discussion about what she was going to wear prior to the event. The boys wear white shirt, grey trousers with a special tie and sash ribbon and the girls wear white dresses. M had said she'd much rather wear what the boys wear, but had conceded that she would wear the dress and commented that since she had to wear a white dress, at least she could wear the one that K had worn the previous year, so I wouldn't have to spend any money on it! When it came to trying on the dress though, she really wasn't happy, as it was 'too fancy' and she found the lacy shoulders itchy and uncomfortable and she came up with the solution of wearing a simple, sleeveless summer dress that she already had in her wardrobe. Once I'd established that it didn't have any tears or stains (anything but a given here!), we agreed that she would wear that instead and she was much happier.
On Saturday Uncle S, Aunty P and 'cousin' Megan (she's a dog) came up for the day, as did Granny, Big Grandad and Uncle M. Everyone but Nana and Little Grandad came to the church, where all went very well, before heading back here for lunch. It was really lovely to have everyone here, as it's very rare that we have both sides of the family together.
This morning, K was feeling very 'huggy' and so after having breakfast, we spent most of the morning snuggling in bed, reading the Maths book that came with the Punctuation book we've been using recently. It has four chapters: Number Bunch, which includes zero, infinity, minus numbers, fractions, decimal fractions and units (measuring); Special Sum-Things, which has add, subtract, multiply, divide and x; Shape-Shifters, with line, angle, circle, pi, triangle, quadrilaterals, polygons, 3D shapes, area and volume; and Data Gang, with average, ratio, per cent, bar chart, pie chart and line graph. I read each section to K and we talked about it, which showed that she has a pretty good grasp of many of the concepts that are touched on, despite only having talked about most of them briefly in passing at some point, although she is still refusing to admit to being anything other than 'rubbish' at maths. We have agreed that we will work our way through the book exploring things further. We hadn't managed to get to the final chapter when it was time for lunch, which A was cooking, so at K's insistense we continued after we'd eaten.
This afternoon, we all, the 'little family' and Nana and Little Grandad, went to Rushcliffe Country Park. It was a beautiful day today, and there were plenty of people who'd had the same idea! The girls had a bit of a play in the playground, before they, Nana and I went for a walk, on the ladybird trail and then around the quieter part of the park. We spotted various butterflies, including peacocks and orange tips, which we identified by using the new (since we were last there)big, wooden, butterfly identification pairs game installation.
We finished the day by watching a 1964 series of The Famous Five - Five Have a Mystery to Solve.
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