Lazy Day

Boy Wonder was playing on Mine Craft until late last night but remained calm and settled. He eventually went to sleep in the early hours and was up again fairly early this morning.  We had a day at home today as the weather wasn't looking great and we felt due a lazy day.

Boy Wonder started the day with a bit of  Mine Craft before breakfast. He then had a lengthily shower where he predominantly just sits crossed legged and let's the water rain down on his head. I coaxed him out and  we had breakfast.

Whilst Super Man took Cat Girl for her swimming lesson, I suggested to Boy Wonder that he did his homework. Surprisingly he agreed without fuss and we started with his numeracy. This took all of one minute, really not challenging at all, consisting only of rounding numbers up and down. We moved onto putting a plan together for his Blue Planet project. I was concerned that he would struggle with the wide topic range and presentation but he had already decided that he would be finding out facts on mammals that live in the Atlantic Ocean. I asked him how he had decided on this subject and he looked at me very confused before saying, ' obviously because dolphins are mammals that live there and they are my favourite mammal!' ' Oh yes of course ,' I said, never really considering this!   We spoke about the content of his project and this is where it got tricky. Boy Wonder flatly refused to consider putting anything that he already knew the answer too as to him, there would be no point.  He wouldn't take the point that his previous knowledge would help him. Therefore we ended up with a very specific content, I.e what depth do each of the mammals live at and how many different types of mammal are there. Looking forward to this one!

We spent an hour before dinner setting up Boy Wonder's castles in the conservatory.  He enjoys preparing them for battle and doesn't forget any detail. However, once set up, he doesn't actually play with them!

After dinner Boy Wonder decided to go outside and pick the apples from his tree. It is still a very young tree so the apples aren't great and are very little. He brought them inside and decided that he wanted to make apple juice.  I equipped him with the tools, namely a blunt knife, a masher and a bowl and left him to it. Half an hour later he had extracted a teaspoon of apple juice! 10 out of 10 for perseverance!

He played with his friend for the rest of the afternoon and got very wet whilst outside. I asked him to come in and change but was met with huge resistance and agitation. Due to the weather they came inside to play. Boy Wonder remained stressy and aggressive in mood, about nothing in particular.

After a late supper of pancakes, Boy Wonder went to bed ....