Catchin up!
Yesterday it was officially declared "nearly enough to Christmas" by dint of the fact that Aprilia watched Muppet Christmas Carol. This sparked Duke to go and find the proper Dickens version which he checked from time to time to confirm that the Muppets were actually sticking to the story very well. Obviously at this point Aprilia decided she wanted me to read it to her. Funny kid, laps up the complicated and rich language of Dickens then asks for a Rainbow Fairy chaser….. I tend to forget that she still likes stuff for her own age because she enjoys the "grown up" stuff so much but there you go!
We have read a full week’s Sonlight in the last 2 days, the history is stuff that’s interesting her at teh moment so she’s happy to listen to more of it and the read aloud - The Wheel on the School - is one that she’s enjoying so rather than stopping mid-chapter like the schedule says we should, we are rattling through full chapters. I like it when she gets all interested, the days go by so much quicker! She’s also read through 2 weeks worth of the first Sonlight learning to read book (the Blue one for those taht know about these things) Only 2 more "lessons" to go and we can finally put it back on the shelf, 18 months after opening it…… (there are 8 lessons in there altogether, each supposed to take a week……)
Cat and house are now free from uninvited guests by the way, and I have gone through next year’s calendar and marked on "treat cat" at the beginning of every month! No way am I risking that again! Aprilia is still really suffering because she scratched the tops of most of the bites so they all got sore and inflamed and she’s now covered head to toe in plasters to stop her doing it again.
Next week’s plan is mainly to blitz the living room to get it as tidy as the carpetted areas of the house (which were all blitzed so we could safely set candle traps) as Aprilia is desperate to get Christmas decs up. I shall refrain from commenting about putting decs up this early and how hacked off I will be with them before Christmas day let alone Twelth Night becuase if it makes her help me tidy up I’ll put up with tinsel everywhere!
