A home day

The rest of our week will be a social one, so it was nice to know that today we had no plans and would take it as it came at us.

The sun was out and it was warm after the cold snap we'd had over the weekend.

Pottered around this morning, the kids pretty much did their own thing. They both got into dress ups throughout the day.

Danielle played at her dollshouse for a few hours (she's become very particular about where the things go and I watched her for a while as she played with the baby, it went to the toilet, flushed it, washed hands, had a bath, then got into bed - repeat!) and Nathan played with his lego.

After both kids playing with the skipping rope for a while, Danielle sat tying up a skipping rope around one of the chairs for ages - she got quite frustrated at times, but persevered.

The kids love making their own chocolate milk, and Danielle has a definite preference now for making her own.

Nathan made a horse which both kids played with at various times.

As I was browsing my cookbooks to decide what to eat for dinner, Danielle was flicking through one of the books pretending to eat all the meals.

We read books in the sun. And I then spent a bit of time getting to read my book in the sun too with the kids happily entertaining themselves.

We decided to get some fresh air and exercise this afternoon and went for a walk (
Nathan riding his bike) around the block and decided to collect treasures on our travels. We went past the beach briefly - but didn't stay - to collect more items for our bag and carried on, bumped into one of Nathan's friends walking down the road so stopped for a little chat before heading back home.


Nathan spent a bit more time in his mud hole out the front (where the well was originally dug).