I posted in April that we were quite enjoying the lockdown, and homeschooling was going better than I expected ( Read more... )

(Content note: This is about how the lockdown is going well for me. I know it's not going well for a lot of people. Maybe don't read on if it's not going well for you and it would distress you to read about how it's going well for me.)

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Watched 101 Dalmatians with the girls. I hadn't seen it before. Pongo and Perdita are having their first litter of puppies, with the women of the house in attendance, who come out and report to Roger that there are 8 puppies. But more puppies keep being born and they keep revising their count - 11, 12, 13, 14, 15! which the girls found hilarious ( Read more... )

Bethany (singing): "Without meee... No one can come to the Father..."
Zoe: "Bethany, who's the Father?"
Bethany: "God."
Zoe: "Oh. But I thought Jesus was the Father."
Bethany: "No, Jesus is the Son."

Bethany and Zoe are both really into the kids' TV show Numberjacks. The numbers 0 to 9 are superheroes, who live in a secret den inside a sofa, and go out to solve problems in the world, which are more or less maths-related ( Read more... )

In terms of size, is Bethany catching me up faster or slower than Zoe is catching Bethany up ( Read more... )

Bethany does loads of drawings for us ( Read more... )

Bethany went to six weekly sessions at the Little Gym over the summer. It's a bit like Tumble Tots, if you remember doing that as a child like I did. There are soft play blocks, springboards, balance beams, hanging-bars, and stuff, and the kids practice things like forward and backward rolls, and swinging upside-down, and jumping onto beams and ( Read more... )

We tried to teach Bethany to play hide-and-seek when she was a toddler, but it didn't really work, and she didn't understand how to play it until she was three or so. I think this is because we tried a few times, saw she wasn't getting it, and gave up for the time being and decided to try later ( Read more... )

Alex has a T-shirt with π on; a few days ago Bethany was asking about it, and he explained that it was pi, it was a number, and it was between 3 and 4 ( Read more... )