Bippity Boppity...

BOO!!

Not all things that go bump at Halloween are spooky!  This year I managed to fall over whilst putting up the outside decorations and broke my ankle.  

As RV has soccer practice on a Monday & everyone else was out it meant that we had no decorations this year...

We did manage to do a couple of pumpkins though

H took influence from Mary Shelleys' Frankenstein this year...wish I had a better photos' as it really is very good

RV's pumpkin was sadly for him left for me to carve last minute with a bread knife, but it did the trick

I also did one with just holes all over and it looked lovely but didn't show up in the photos but we have our casper ghost too

So a broken ankle has meant I've had to spend more time than I would normally at home...and I've imposed a self controlled internet limit so I don't fritter the days away in blogland

It's not a major or serious break, a small but rather uncomfy one, resulting in lots of swelling around the joint and bruising.

I have been drinking a fair amount of 

whilst twiddling these onto the crochet hook

and have been nibbling away at one of these

apple pie

yummy!!

Loopy has been at her books almost every day, she is loving the new activity books and I need to keep her motivated with the work books so we can keep this little burst of enthusiasm from both of us going.

The basic phonic books we ordered have arrived (Montessori inspired) and I'm looking forward to her going through them and recognising a few of the words straight of.

We will be starting to look at the high frequency words too now, things that don't necessarily make phonics sense but are in our day to day vocabulary and high readers in books.

More work books on the way, these are more like you find in schools than home and I hope will keep her busy little mind ticking over :)

So despite the ouchy we're doing good!  I've not had to get up and out to do the school runs, the down side has been I've been quite isolated.  We are an insular little family, not needing or really wanting to find others but I do miss the social interaction that basic things like the grocery shopping and toddlers group provide. 

 I don't think the kiddos have noticed a huge difference as I have made a real effort to ensure that they are doing bits and bobs till RV comes home and they go out the front to play.