Max is turning out to be a bit of climber to say the least, he keeps trying to climb up the edge of the door, chairs and is regularly found to be doing kitten pull ups on the back of our wooden chairs, before precariously perching on the top of them! He has moments of being complete madness, chasing everything and anything and then crashing out. There are those moments when he crashes out, where you do a double take and like the new Mum with the baby you carefully watch to see if they are still breathing! Photo below is one of sleeping poses that made me wonder, wait and watch to see if he is still breathing, then wishing that I could be that relaxed :)
Think everyone is enjoying watching him play and the odd positions he ends up to sleep in, though could do without the pouncing on feet.
L and I read
Oscar and The Cricket, a story all about pulling, pushing and moving, great way to introduce the idea of friction causing objects to slow, as well as the obvious movement. I do love the Oscar stories, they are a lovely way to introduce different science concepts, with plenty of scope to expand if required. So following on from the story, thought we would look at movement in a different way, this time marble painting, see how we can get the marble to move and can you get it to go in a circle, which we found rather tricky!
Now I have been looking at
Sassafras Science, as you know L loves animals and stories and the first book in the series does both. But I have been trying to resist the temptation to buy more books, that was until I saw this post on
Let Them Be Small, Sarah has done a nice video on how she uses it, which was too tempting. So now have the book, we have read and enjoyed the first chapter, I bought the colouring pages to go with it, so L colours as I read, really looking froward to how this could work. The story is about the adventures of Blaine and Tracey as they explore different habitats around the world and some of the animals you find there. I am hoping to bring in some geography and cultural studies of the countries we visit in the stories.
To go with the first chapter, as an intro to different habitats, animal kingdoms and food chains, we are reading our way through :-
Now I finally have the sewing machine out again, haven't done any dressmaking since last year and I think that was back in the summer, probably due to GCSE studying and revising with M, sewing always takes more planning than picking up some knitting. We are making another
Geranium Dress, I was planning on making the top for L but she has asked for the dress, just had enough fabric to make a dress. Not actually got round to sewing yet but fabric has been cut out, so heading in the right direction!
Finished sewing up the little
bambino cardigan, the bambino wool is lovely, its an acrylic but feels more like a natural yarn, like a cotton or bamboo, really nice to knit with.
Went back to knitting some of
L's top, just need to make the little sleeves, the stylecraft cotton yarn is great and she can't wait to wear it!

M has had 2 trial days at college trying out animal care, she is now enrolled, it is only one day week and can start now. The two trial days hubby was of so was able to take her, this week, we will have to drop her in town and for her to get the coach there and back, it makes for a very long day for her, leaving home at 7am and probably won't be home till 6pm due to were the college is situated. Hoping she manages the tiredness and travel, tiredness always makes her sensory processing worse, In her group we think there are only 8 and talking to staff and parents they are all on the autistic spectrum, M can't get over how quiet, calm and helpful the staff are compared to when she tried year 7 at secondary school which was a bit of a disaster to say the least! So this is big move for her and hoping she carries on loving it, least it has taken her mind somewhat of the looming GCSE maths exam, first one this Thursday!
After much decision making O has chosen which uni he wants to go to in September, he will be studying biological science, student finance forms have been filled in, now awaiting to see how much he will be awarded. Then it will be down to some budgeting and sorting out, it is an exciting time for him, least one thing, I know he is a capable cooking and can meal prep for a week, though not sure how much fridge space he will have in shared accommodation!

Now I didn't mention this the other week, for many reason, L had another food challenge booked, after the failing at first mouthful the other year on the soya one. Then developing more allergies after it, I've had very mixed feelings running up to this one to say the least. So Thursday saw us leaving home at 6.15am to be at Southampton hospital for 8am for a peanut challenge.....throughout the morning she kept doing the odd random hive or two and some itching but the nurses were sure this was just environmental reactions. Wish she hadn't done the odd hives, as I was dreading the 48 hours later when we had to try her again at home, so she started of with just a couple of peanuts to eat, she was fine, so 3 hours later she tried some peanut butter on celery, which she loved, she is now demanding more. Give me another couple of days of this and I might finally relax but it looks like L has one less allergy!