Off to the Museum (by sarah)

The School sent us a letter home saying there was to be a mystery trip and what with the appearance of Giant Inflatable bouncy castle dinosuars in the playground it was obvious what sort of trip was coming so third week in and Jean was off to the Oxford Natural History Museum!

This made me very happy and nostalgic as I remember going to the Natural History Museum London in my first year of school and it was the reason I ended up doing a geology degree!

Unfortunatly I couldn't find her little day rucksac so she ended up with PikiChew who is Huge with very little capacity!

She came back very excited that she has bones in her hands but disappointed that their hadn't been any real dinosaurs!

Mummy There’s a Dinosaur in the Playground (by sarah)

It's the start of week Three and yesturday saw the launch of the schools new theme - as we were walking up to the school - it becames obvious that there is something large and big and red in the playground!

'Mummy there's a dinosaur in the playground!'

'Yes there is!'

'Girly they're doing Dinosaurs! We'll have to tell them your a geologist!'

There was an inflatable slide in the shape of a stegasuarus in the play ground! Jean managed to get in a sneaky extra go at lunch time when we were supposed to be going home!

I have sorted out a done of books for the school on dinosaurs - The learning theme is called Journey to the Jurassic! And they are going to the Oxford Natural History Museum on Wednesday 🙂

Silly Sarah (by sarah)

I think maybe I have been watching too many horror movies lately.

Last night I had miss placed my phone - this is quiet a normal occurance and as the BT guy had fixed the landline I thought I'd use that to phone my mobile.

So this is what I did and there in the distance upstairs was the jingle of my ring tone. Now I was doing this becuase I was slightly spooked - Al wasn't here nor was dad and it was dark and there had been a strange sound that was a cat and there had been a huge spider fall on me from the rafters and was currently sitting on the bedroom wall looking at me.

I picked the phone up and looked at the screen - Oh my God! Someone from the village is calling me! At this time of night something must be wrong! So I answered the phone whilst heading downstairs to put the landline back on the hook.

And there was an opressive silence that then begain to echo back my own voice. I went still with panic and then realised... I'd phoned myself! I laughed and hung up both phones feeling really quiet stupid. But I was still feeling spooked so I phoned Al and we set up a skype call.

He has a camera on his laptop so his image came up but it was distorting in a way that made him look like some pale alien - I screamed :/ And woke Jean up and Alaric was non plussed to here why I'd screamed.

I also think perhapse my pain killers are making thought processes a bit harder than normal to honest :/

It sounds really silly and I have no idea why I got so spooked at all but it really was a horror movie moment and then it was a spoof moment and yes as alwasys I'm a silly Sarah :/

Ringing the Bell (by sarah)

Yay Jean got chosen to ring the bell at school 🙂

School – Beginning of week 2 (by sarah)

Today Jean went off to school happily though she still clings like an extra clingy thing to Alaric in the play ground :/

She was given an invite to a Girly Party which is tomorrow - the dynamics of this where quiet interesting, the little girl couldn't find her so one of the boys tracked Jean down and then when Jean didn't get what was being said he went and got the invite for her and delivered it!

The boys where also quiet put out about not being invited which was interesting to observe with one child having to explain the it wasn't for boys.

When we went to pick her up she did her skip home from school thing which includes a silly song I had to make up for her about skipping home from school at lunch time and trying to catnap Cosmic the cat. As we were walking past the cemetary Jean informed us we had to be quiet other wise they (pointing to the grave yard unconcernedly) might hear us. I don't remember really explaining much about grave yards to her - it was very horror movie-esk to be honest!

The Cats have also started following us part way to the school and Helium was even sitting at the gate for when we returned 🙂

This afternoon Jean announced I was using full stops and finger spaces when I'm writing but that I do naughty writing (my handwriting?) which was quiet sweet. She seems to have learned a song as well and announced that her food turns into energy which was interesting - not sure if that from Alaric's rescent conversations with her or school.

In just one week her colouring in has drastically improved - she is at least attempting to colour rather than just scribble over the top. Though she has attempted to draw cat whiskers one me this afternoon - I was being distracted so almost said yes to it too!

The only sad thing is that pretty much every day she colours a stack of pictures for her pre-school friends and asks us to send them to them 🙁