Callum has definitely turned into a teen or at least a preteen. He's reading every night (which isn't a bad thing) until about 11pm, but that means he isn't getting up until 9am, sometimes 10am. Again, this isn't a real problem as we aren't having to get ready for school, but it does mean that by the time we are up and ready it's verging on lunchtime! The weather hasn't helped either as it's been so miserable that that affects my moods and I've been having more headaches and having a general feeling of blurgh!
So what have we done? Well, we've still been going to ice skating and the Faversham meetings and Callum has still be doing trampolining. He's now somersaulting! Did six this week, with 4 of those in a row! Go Callum!
Last weekend we held a charity tea party in aid of the Blue Cross (animals) and managed to raise just over £100. Callum helped make a few of the cakes and posted invites to the neighbours. He also helped clean up the house in readiness for our guests. So I suppose we could class that as life skills, haha.
Sunday we went off to the local Flower Festival at Cozenton and bought some veg and fruit plants for the garden and some alpines for Callum's little sink garden. It needs digging out and redoing, so that is something I'd like to get done before the weekend if the weather stays dry.
Monday this week we went off to London with his sister, Terri, to visit an art exhibition in Somerset House. We are supposed to be looking at colour and light and The Courtauld Gallery had a Mondrian/Nicholson exhibition on, so I thought that would be a good one to visit as Mondrian (and Nicholson) used blocks of colour. Callum really enjoyed it, in fact he also enjoyed having a look at the other exhibitions that were on, "I liked seeing the different ways of painting" he told me on Wednesday when we were doing a write up to go in our folder. In fact, he even said he would like to go and visit some other galleries!
Callum's own version of Mondrian
Afterwards we then walked back towards Waterloo East and went off to the Imperial War Museum for a couple of hours. Had totally forgotten how much of it there was and we have decided another visit is necessary. We only managed one floor and the main hall.
Callum with his sister, Terri
Just about reach!
As I've already said we had trampolining on Tuesday and yesterday Terri visited us again and they had a little art lesson on creating pictures in the style of Mondrian or Nicholson (see Callum's above).
Today, it's overcast again, I have a headache and Callum is in his pjs on the Wii. Tomorrow is the ice skating meet and we have Mini Beast Hunting and Tree Identification Walk at the weekend.
Hopefully we will feel more motivated next week. Not so out and about which means we might be able to get some experiments done and some more maths.
Cya
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