Cass, WTG! We all knew you would be fab. And I am with MD, expanding the theory to accommodate your findings is way impressive!

MD, is there a website that will take a kidney for a bit of quiet? I have two, it would be worth it!

Trill, I am alright, thanks for asking. Just the same ****, different day iykwim. I am fortunate that one of the local school teachers is on maternity leave and comes to one of the mum's groups around here and she is happy to talk about reading skills. From what she said, they teach alphabet, phonics, sight words and then as the books get more advanced they start sounding out new words. From the other thread I have realised that the rhyme words are important so I guess we will do -at, -it, -et etc when we get to it. It really isn't much, atm we are doing something maybe once or twice a week, just as a bit of extra when reading books. All fun based, no real structured stuff. I don't even care if he is reading or not, I just wanted something to challenge him a bit.

Boring weekend here, I am trying to force out a journal paper summary which is tough going when the material is so dry. I am wondering if I have bitten off more than I can chew leaping straight into a second year paper, especially since I never really wrote essay's during my original degree (love science!). I also somehow volunteered to be the membership officer for toy library, didn't seem like a big job when I offered but it turns out to be reasonably involved!

Miss A is nearly walking now - she can do about 8-10 steps solo but she can't launch or stop on her own and I have to hover over her because she tends to fall to the side. She hasn't crawled and is showing no intention of it so it will be good for her to have a bit of independence.