I say, I say, I say ...
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to his allotment. Why did the donkey chop its leg off? So it could go to the hopping centre. Looks like we're in for a merry half-term holiday.
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Summon the tooth fairy!
The first wobbly tooth has popped out. Since it was also the first one to emerge when she was just a baby, I feel rather wobbly about it myself!
Apostrophising
Well I declare! Katy has amazed us all with her early grasp of orthography - although her spelling is still in the early stages. Given a piece of paper by her teacher headed "My news" she wrote I we[n]t to my Dad's f[ri]e[n]d's party . I think I explained in simple terms how the apostrophe works a while ago, and she's just remembered and applied it. I didn't actually use this phrase but it wouldn't now surprise me if she came out with "This is a typical example of the Anglo-Saxon genitive"!
Racing start
Week 2 at school, and we've just been told by Katy's teacher Mrs Elliott that she'll be making a special reading plan for her, as Katy is racing through all the reading scheme books, almost as if she has a photographic memory!
And so it begins ...
... the ceaseless round of school terms and extra-curricular activities. Starting with music classes on Monday after school (Kodály and Dalcroze methods thank you very much, none of that dodgy Suzuki stuff) and ballet on Saturday morning. We are slightly late jumping on this merry-go-round as we got held up with stuff like Katy's 5th birthday party (at a traditional gym hall, very popular with children of various ages) and a visit from 10-year old Bavarian cousin Jack. Taking two kids to Legoland fairly shredded my nerves, but the uncle-nephew axis was very usefully strengthened over curry and Dr Who videos. Although they didn't obviously interact very much, it has clearly been very important to Katy to be able to show off her cousin at the school gates and she has been writing little notes about "I love my family" in her drawing activities. She has also switched on to Lego remarkably quickly, so presumably will have no trouble with the instructions for flatpack furni...
Going out with a bang
Katy has not really enjoyed going to "nursery nursery" even just one morning a week this year, as she's been keen to leave all that behind and be a proper school girl. We had to give up on Little Petals after just a few weeks, and Victoria Road was barely tolerated (and That Accident happened there). But they did manage to achieve something really positive in entering Katy for a poetry writing "competition" ... and her little piece - crafted by slotting her own few words into a rhyme template - was actually "selected" for publication. Vanity publishing for sure, but parents are suckers for this kind of thing.