I’ll never be rich!
I’ve got lots of new goodies through the post today though! First was Our Island Story which Aprilia decided looked boring so I hammed up the first chapter shamelessly and she’s hooked (so am I!) it is a fantastic book for reading out, the story is vivid, the chapters are short and it just flows nicely.
Then I got the flash cards from Child First that I ordered last week. They really are very good. In fact she has insisted on reading the first set of 40 to me twice already and the combination of graphics, silly actions and a sentence tying the word to the graphic seems to be really floating her boat. She even had a damned good attempt at the "sentence strips" - slips of paper using the words from each set - and got through 3 or 4 of those proving to herself that she could read the words even without the graphics round them.
She’s very cuddly at the moment, I suspect that something has really upset her as she’s constantly needing hugs and telling me how I’m the best mummy ever almost as if she want’s me to be terribly sure that she does love me and that I’m not going to do anything nasty. I get the sinking feeling my parents have been guilt tripping her again…. but of course, she won’t tell me as she knows full well I will go up the wall with them!
