Ironing

It's been 3 days since school started, and we're still ironing out the kinks, mainly in the scheduling.  These 3 days have been anything but uneventful! 

First, Gabriel, our 11 month old, has been down with a high fever from Saturday to Monday.  So you can imagine... mummy having little sleep for 3 consecutive nights, baby extremely fussy and not napping and sleeping well.  Brought him to the doctor on Monday night, at which point he decided to return to his usual squirmy, wormy self.  Anyway, the PD diagnosed him with tonsillitis, and now he's on antibiotics.  Thank God, the fever has broken, but I think he's still bothered by his throat.

Secondly, our home decided to have some electrical fault, so today, the electrician came.  Twice.  Because a few hours after his first visit, all my power sockets in the kitchen suddenly died.  It turned out to be a loose connection in the circuit breaker.  

Despite all these disruptions, we still managed to do homeschool :), 2 days with a baby on mummy's lap.  Sarah's attitude is so much better this year.  But I found my schedule of late last year, too demanding, so I've revised it.  Will be testing it for the next 2 weeks while things get settled down.

Ben sits down for lessons for about 15  minutes before he asks to do something else.  I guess, for a 3 year old, one cannot expect much more.

For Sarah's Botany, we've been growing bean plants (soya beans) in various conditions.  So far, not much growth yet, am wondering if any of the beans will grow into plants.  LOL :).  She's learning how to conduct experiments and record hypotheses and results.

Here's what we did on the last day of 2009.  Pasir Ris park - super place for the kids.  Will certainly bring them again next holidays (more about this in another post).