Knitting

Mummy and I are in a knitting club called Knit and Natter that meets at the Almanack on Thursday mornings. We could not knit before we joined and at first Mummy helped me with my scarf. Now I knit by myself and I can talk and knit at the same time like the other ladies in the group.

Nanna comes too but she calls the group "Crochet and Chat" because she does not knit. I call the group "Knit and Natter, Crochet and Chatter". Mummy has learnt to crochet but is not as fast as Nanna at all. I have a special knitting bag that I take with me and Mummy challenges me to knit a number of rows each time.

Last week there was a power cut at the Almanack and so we had to knit in the dark and I still managed to knit a row.

Mummy makes me toast and puts butter and honey on it. I have an Innocent pouch to drink or a hot milk or a strawberry milkshake. I like the milkshake because it comes with a straw and smarties on top of the cream. If Mummy has a hot chocolate I like to have her marshmallows. Nanna has a hot mint tea and lets me squash the leaves with a spoon. It goes green.

Didn't you know if I put a green smartie in water the smartie goes white and the water changes colour a little. If you put three smarties in water the water tastes funny afterwards and it takes a long time for the colour to come off them all. Didn't you know the smarties don't have to be green to go white because it works with all smarties. If you suck a smartie and don't bite it then it goes white and soft in your mouth. Mummy says the orange ones taste the best and are her favourites but pink is my best colour. If I lick a smartie and then put it on the cream on my milkshake then the colour of the cream changes and the smartie sticks to the cream. I have done these experiments and lots of others. Daddy and I are going to make a battery with coins and make a clock work with a potato or mud. I like doing experiments at home especially messy ones.

Mummy has also learned to knit and she made these hats for Daddy and me. She made Daddy's first and I kept borrowing it so she made one for me. I chose the wool for mine from Nanna's collection and made Mummy knit with 3 different colours of pink.

She made it too small at first so had to take it apart and try again. The next time it was still too small for my ears so she made me the earflaps and the big bobble on top. It is snuggly and I tie it under my chin so it doesn't blow off in the wind.
I am making a pink scarf and when the pink is used up there are other colours. I have new needles now and you can see where I started knitting without help (it has some holes in it) and then where I used my new needles because they helped me make it neaat and Mummy says it has a tight tension and is consistent. When I have finished I will photograph it and wear it.

Ice Skating

Mummy took me ice skating in Solihull but she stayed off the ice as she has not got good balance. One of the home ed Daddies (Andre) took me on the ice and I held Andre's hand round the ice.
This was my first time on real ice and it was a lot more slippy than the plastic ice Daddy took me on in the summer.
I waved at Mummy every time I went past. I cam off to have a bite off banana but wanted to get straight back on.








This is my friend Holly and it was her first time ice skating too. She held my hand and I held the barrier. She wobbled and I fell over lots. We wouldn't let the home ed Daddies help us as we wanted to go round on our own.
Mummy had spare trousers for me but I didn't put them on because I wanted to stay on the ice.
We had to dash off Solihull and I had an in car picnic on the way to my dance class.






Last week Mummy took me iceskating for the second time on the real ice.
This time I did not hold Holly's hand but am skating across the middle with Holly. I am really confident because I am wearing double bladed skates.










I really like ice skating a huge bit. I can now skate forwards and backwards and turn in a circle.



Mummy said I looked like a penguin as I skated round the ice. I enjoyed skating across the middle of the rink. Allison is one of the bigger home ed girls and she skated with me so that the big boys on the ice wouldn't crash into me.



I didn't fall over until the very end of the session. I learnt how to get myself up when I fell and it didn't hurt.
I tried to skate and touch my toes at the same time but it was easier to touch my toes when I was standing still.


My ice skating nonsense song:
Ice skating, ice skating is really fun,
Though it is cold, it is really slippy,
When I've got double blades, I'm really hot.
How fun would it be to skate on your nose.

Snow

I have written a poem about the snow. A couple of weeks ago we had lots of snow and had snowball fights with Debs outside The Almanack and then played in the snow on the green the next morning.

SNOW


Snow, snow, wonderful snow.
'Though it is soft and powdery
you can make snowballs to throw.

I love to shock my Mummy
with a snowball to her tummy.
Daddy is surprised
by a snowball at his thighs.

I love it when it snows
'though it is chilly on my toes
and snowflakes do land on my nose.


I love making angels in the snow.
It helps when I wear waterproof trousers below.

My bottom and legs stay dry,

so I can make angels and not cry.

I do not like snowballs thrown at my face,
nor are my ears an appropriate place.
Snowflakes are pretty, white, wet and cold,
a man took photographs of them in days of old.







Each one is unique
and when it rains the do leak.

The snow goes brown and then thaws
when it warms up out of doors.




When we played in the snow we made this snowman even bigger than me. We took it in turns to get our of breath by shovelling snow into piles. The sun melted my snowman and his head fell off.




Daddy, Debs and Mummy buried me in the snow. I was still snug because I had waterproofs on. Mummy got a wet bottom when she made a snow angel. I made an avalanche on Debs' car when I pushed the snow off the roof and bonnet. My chickens don't like the snow but we put vaseline on their combs to stop them cracking like my lips did.