Writing, music, crochet and sheer loveliness.

This morning both K & M were doing some writing.  M wrote up the letter she'd drafted last week, to go with the picture of Ironbridge that she'd drawn to try to get a Blue Peter badge to replace the one she lost.  K has started what we're calling a 'brain splurge' of what she'd like to do in the coming weeks and months, something I've asked M to do too, but she hasn't started yet.  Both girls have said that they'd like to do a bit more 'learny stuff', by which I think they mean have a bit more structure and direction.  The building work/new kitchen has disrupted things more (and for longer) than I'd anticipated, but it's getting there now and the things that were spread all over the house, making the space we'd usually use for doing things cramped and crowded, are gradually making there were back to the kitchen and hopefully at the weekend we'll have the PC back up and running.

M's Blue Peter letter and picture.

The middle of the day was filled by music lessons (both girls also did some practice this morning).  So I took M to her French horn lesson (usually Wednesday, but Tuesday just for this week) and dropped her off there, then came home for K, took her most of the way to her piano lesson, then returned to pick M up and take her for her piano lesson, during which K & I played Phase 10.

On the way home the conversation turned to bikes, since the girls went to the park on theirs at the weekend and M was bemoaning the fact that hers is getting rather small for her and she's not finding it comfortable to ride because the handle bars are too low, even though they're as high as they can go.  Since she's only just had a birthday, I suggested that she could ask for a new one for Christmas.  K is a long way from growing out of hers and M usually gets a hand-me-down from her, so it would mean her first new bike.  At this point K suggested that we (A & I) could get M a bike for K's birthday (in October), since there isn't really anything that she wants or needs at the moment.  I asked if she was serious and she absolutely was, at which point M said that if we did do this, then she would get K 'something big' for her birthday.

Korfball wasn't on this evening due to the England football match, something that the girls were rather indignant about, particularly since we already know they are already going home.  I texted S, to see if A & J would like to meet up at the park instead, but unfortunately J is poorly, so that was a no-go.  Having heard this M decided to make J a get well present, so she and K (who was doing word-searches) shut themselves in the playroom and listened to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on cd.

While they were doing that, I did some more kitchen sorting and started a new crochet project (another basket, as my friend saw the one I had nearly finished and requested one for her birthday).  I later discovered that M had been crocheting too (using her own made up stitch, stuffing and sewing up square-ish shapes) and made J a very colourful giraffe-y creation.

M's crochet creation.