3rd January

Gentle day back into some vague semblance of routine. Actually, that's not true. It's nearly midnight and Elijah is still up. I read some research today which suggested that children who lack fixed time routines for meal times and bed times don't do as well at school. I figured we have fixed meal times pretty much and don't go to school so two out if three ain't bad!

We went to a birthday party today and had a lovely time. The parents were "music together" teachers so the activity at the party was great. Lots of singing, dancing and playing musical instruments as part of a group of around 15 kids and as many adults again. Elijah didn't really participate, he had found a car building kit of a certain little shiny red sports car affectionately known as lightning and the queen in my house, so he took himself off to do that in typical "construction mad" style. Barnaby, however, was enthralled with the whole thing. Perhaps I should consider signing up for a music course with him.

The boys made cards themselves to give to their birthday friend and Elijah's writing is really coming on. He is keen to copy as much as he can when he doesn't know the spelling himself. I noticed too that Barnaby's pencil grip is looking very sophisticated these days too for a 21 month old. :)