The past few days both kids have been playing a lot of board games, making lego creations, drawing on the magnadoodle, making paper airplanes (Nathan's started making his own) and drawing. Danielle's been focused on dollshouse play again which she hasn't been into for quite a few weeks.

Nathan's loving his audio book CD's and I've figured out a way to help him with his letter F pronounciation. I heard him one day chanting Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum after listening to Jack and the Beanstalk and realised that the F sound was coming out perfect, but when he says fish, finger, five, four etc they come out with a P sound. F sounds are usually developed by the age of 4, but the speech language therapist wasn't concerned because when she tested him he was able to make an F sound in the middle and end of words and felt that they would come with time - that was a year ago. So once I realised he could make the F sound when he wasn't even thinking about it (and using new made up words where he had no previous habit formed on their use) I made up a little game where he chants Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, Finger/Fish/Five etc and it comes out correctly. I've even heard him self correcting himself using the chant when he's said a word with a P sound when he knows it's an F.

Nathan's Tadpole


Danielle playing with the pattern blocks


Nathan's cemetary of "head stones"


We had some friends come and play this morning and Nathan decided to empty out his room to make it safer for his friend with the broken leg (not sure of the logic really lol), so they had her set up on the bed and they laid out all their bedding on the floor, put soft toys all over to jump over (not the friend!) and put on one of my CD's to dance to. Danielle then found some felting wool and asked me to set her up with the water and soap, so I put that out on the table and all the kids worked up at the table and made felted balls for a while.


This afternoon we set of to the supermarket to do our shopping which was full of many interesting discussions.