Surprise Spring cleaning and house changes

 Turn your back for five minutes and........
Really don't know where I was and quite how I missed the quiet surruptitious bucket and wipes collecting but thought all seemed quiet and entered the childrens bedroom to find.....them washing the walls and ceilings- perched five feet in the air, leaning across a large gap. "Mummy- we are spring cleaning to help you"- well what can you say? Am thinking of selling their services to the NHS as wall cleaners- hee hee! Serves me right- we had been having conversations about feeling the change of seasons coming and traditions associated with season change.

 SJs Viking ship - built from the Lego Ideas book- obviously in multicoloured brick rather than nice colourmatched/appropriate bricks- but I was very impressed. Took him a fair while too. Other than lego we have been gently working on introduction of multiplication (2,5,10s) and time telling- specifically introducing the idea of the digital clock alongside the analogue clock. We did debate this long and hard- as to whether this might increase confusion- but it seems to be working OK so far and he seems to understand the divisions into five minute segments better- and lets face it - an awful lot of the outside world revolves around digital clocks these days!

The work on the house continues and has produced some interesting off cuts and the children spent a whole day (with daddies tools!!!) building various models out of the (very expensive, experimental) insulation- this is FIs rocket ship - very impressive and only led to one cut finger! FI has also been very interested in Maths- also having a go at basic multiplication of 2s and is getting quite good at subtraction. She really enjoys 'formal' workbooks (possibly a girl thing??) and insists on having things 'marked' and has been shooting through a few recently.

Anyway the house is progressing- top coat of render done- just the guttering and tidying to be done. Lookuing forward to the builders going off site now and taking their skip and scaffolding with them! Then I can start to properly tidy and feel like my garden belongs to us again!