Our day in pictures

It was a playcentre day this morning - there was plenty of climbing and imaginative play going on for both kids today.

While Danielle napped during the middle of the day, Nathan made this. He hasn't had the train track out for a while, nor the blocks. But he loves using them together. These stacked up block creations have been made over the past year and were a real source of frustration at times getting them strategically placed with the track balanced on top, but now he's quite a whizz at constructing it. It started off with just the blocks and a "train garage", then he decided it could have track coming out of it and away it went. Note the platform of people under the garage lol. Oh, and he told me the loop was the shape of a pear.

When Danielle woke, we filled the paddling pool up and Danielle discovered she could make the boat move around with the hose.

Nathan then asked to make some gluten free playdough since I'd asked him not to play with it at playcentre this morning after last weeks tummy ache.


Gluten free playdough (non-cook recipe)
1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 cup corn flour
1/2 cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 cup boiling water
Add to the water: 1 teaspoon cooking oil, a few drops of food colouring

Mix all dry ingredients together, add boiling water with added ingredients and stir until it blends into a ball. Put onto a bench sprinkled with rice flour and knead till no longer sticky. Add extra corn flour and rice flour till you get doughy yet not sticky dough (usually an extra 1/2 cup of rice flour and 1/2 cup of corn flour are required for this process).

When dad got home, we went down and watered the garden, let the chickens out, bounced on the tramp, then the kids asked if they could make some muffins with him. So instead of their usual toast before bed, they munched on muffins instead (and I had to evict the crumbs from the bed - ick!). We continued on reading Charlotte's Web and had a small intermission while Nathan decided to have me write out a bunch of words (it started with Templeton and then moved on to the other key characters and themes in the book).