A few days ago LGR asked me a great little question (again):
"How did they make tools before they had tools to make tools?"
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We've been reading heaps of books to LGR recently - probably averaging about 1 per day. The number of words he can now read is quite staggering. He seems to almost look at them and just remember them. He has a very strong capacity to sound words out and if he can't spell them he can write/type the sounds that are involved in making the word. It's hard to explain but in essence it's not far away from phonetic spelling.
He is also displaying the same short term memory issues that I have - leaving things all over the place and/or just plain losing them. It's frustrating but hard to criticise when I do it myself ....
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Hayzey has developed a disturbing new habit - if somebody says something she doesn't want to hear (for example when asked to do a job or stop playing with something or really just anything that is different to what she is doing) she pretends not to hear or just completely ignores. She will look straight at you and continue on with what she was doing. Neither of us have any idea how to get her to stop doing this - reasoning, argument and punishment certainly aren't working. Time to consult the oracles and see what else we can try :-)