T-Bird Anni Rides Again

Well, okay so no "formal" drawing today but then she was well and truely busy all day and there was a fair chunk of craft-ish stuff.  First there was Jungle Jims which filled the entire morning, we were teh first there at jsut past 9am and I finally dragged her out at 12. 

Home for lunch and found that we had had a parcel delivered, Zoombinis have arrived at our home!  So naturally we needed to install and play.  It was a team effort as the logic of some of the games escaped her completely but we managed to get 10 of the little critters to Zoombiniville after about 2 hours of play.  I felt a bit torn actually, part of me wanted to explain exactly how you worked out some of the puzzles (look for the characteristic that all the ones that could go that way posessed, is there a characteristic that couldn’t go that route etc) but part of me wanted her to puzzle that out for herself.  I ended up sort of thinking it out loud so she got teh idea of my thought process (wait, what am I saying?  Me? logical thought process? no wonder the poor kid couldn’t get it!!) which had some success.  I’ve suggested she works on teh games she really doesn’t "get" in practice mode for a while as aparently once you ahve completed a game a few times it moves you up a level.

That pretty much brought telly time, playing with bits of paper and making a mess time and tea time.  At which point there didn’t seem much point embarking on any sort of formal-ish anything really.

And me?  Well I did a load of crochet whilst she tore round the play equipment and, um, that was it really! 

Well, obviously this depends on the Family Railcard arriving in time (why oh why did I not order it when Joyce blogged it the other week???) but if it does then it will cost me under £60 for the pair of us to get down and home again in under 4 hours on the train but then having a 4 mile walk (or cadging a lift off someone??) from Shorham-on-Sea train station (and either a bus or cadging lifts to get across town to our train station) as opposed to about £50 in fuel and roughly 6 hours of me battling the M6, M25 and various A roads, shouting at the SatNav, getting a numb bum but having door to door transport.

I can see the advantages of both really.  Aprilia would love to go by train and it appeals to me too as someone else gets to do the work whilst I just need to entertain one child (which I would still need to do a bit of if driving) but it’s the hassle at both ends of the journey as trains don’t take you door to door!!!!

So. Opinions in the comments box!