HE fun

A few photographs from our week so far. It's been a bit chilled this week. The weather has been so amazing, we've just been out in the garden. I was also given an iPad for my birthday at the weekend and so we've been trying out all the apps. George 2 loves the telling the time app and George 1 has enjoyed doing some quick mental maths. They've also found a good number of games that they're enjoying. Another present I got was a National Trust membership. On Monday we went straight out to Prior Park in Bath. We passed the canals and talked about Brunel, then they learnt about the building of Bath and the part that Ralph Allen played. A short history of the postal service came into it of course. We then did a lot of walking and playing in the beautiful landscaped gardens.

George 2 just marches to his own drum beat. Orange shorts, red jumper, odd socks and an Indiana Jones hat. One of the best things about HE is that no one tells him it's wierd or wrong, because it's not. It's individualism.

Today we went to our lacal HE goup. It's becoming a lovely and quite busy little group. Today someone came from the local astronomers group to speak to us. This picture shows a scaled down version of the solar system. The lady in the blue coat representing the sun, then Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars (all quite close together). Then Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and the girl in pink in the distance is Neptune. It was to show the distances between the planets. The man was so enthusiastic and given the noisy and at times chaotic nature of a HE meet, even offered to come back another day. The older children were fascinated by his presentation and the younger ones enjoyed the presentation.

I just want to add that I love HE. I love it's crazy wackiness, I love it's individual nature, I love that everyone is different, everyone does things slightly differently, there are as many styles of HE as there are families doing it, and yet we all get on because we respect those differences. We celebrate those differences and learn something from everyone we meet. Life is about learning and HE helps me to learn things I never thought I would.