#Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me! Underlying I feel grotty this morning, stiff neck, headache & cough with sore throat, but hey – it’s me birthday & nowt is gonna dampen that lightness of step this has imbued. My Digital Camera did arrive yesterday & aside from a good bit of scratching of brain to try to get it working & then putting the batteries in correctly (duh) it was sorted. Only had time to do a couple of ‘test’ snaps – which had to be deleted (boo – well – Louise does not like her picture taken at the moment). I also got myself the Massive Attack videos dvd yesterday – which after a spell of refusing to work (on the mac) as well – suddenly sprang into life – joy – it all works! I opened my (albeit few) cards last night – which was nice… The really good surprise was a card from Jack that he had made himself though. I was very very happy about that. Apparently he was having trouble doing it as he wanted to do it straight away – but was told that he had to do some sentences 1st. Very nicely coloured in as well – even though I say so myself. Jack has reading books to bring home & he goes through them with us – as we are supposed to – he reading them to us. He does it in an ‘I’m reading’ voice, “Look – at – me – Mum.” but I’ve noticed that this is a voice he uses to designate the fact that he is ‘reading’ the book to us… he is really remembering the book & running his fingers over the words. Sometimes his ‘tracking’ is off – the finger whizzes past the words before he had ‘read’ them & sometimes he gets things a little wrong… but still… Louise says she thinks that this is all part of the learning process. Whether he is supposed to be setting in the ‘glue’ words like ‘go’ ‘at’ & so forth I’m not entirely sure, but it seems likely from what Louise was saying. She also mentioned (she’s been talking with another mother) that in a lot of cases reading these books they can ‘get’ (surmise) some of the longer words from the pictorial cues, but it’s these ‘glue’ words that can often have trouble sinking in. It just amuses me the way he’s faking us out.
OK – so it’s a point & click camera – so I’ve got to get to grips with the flash as yet… The last picture is of me by Jack.
Eve reflected in a brass egg warmer playing with a brass morter & pestle in Mum & Dad’s retaurant. Mind the ornaments! funny… how grandchildren can get away with things.
