Tuesday

It was a playcentre day today and both kids had heaps of fun. We set up a water trough with different sized cylinders and they all did pouring with dyes, water and oil, then had other pottles with a concoction of baking soda and coloured vinegar. All the dyes and oils ran together in the trough and became a big murky slimy brown mess, but it kept them entertained for a good few hours.

After lunch Nathan watched a few DVDs, after having switched from daylight savings time, the early morning wake ups are catching up on them with over tiredness, so I'm trying to get them back on track (and more importantly for my own tiredness, have their wake up times back to 7am or after) - so a restful afternoon seemed to be what they wanted after such an active morning.

Nathan helped make our taco's for dinner by lining the taco shells up on the tray and wanting to put them in the oven, he then cooked up the minced beef. After dinner, the kids set themselves up a confidence course arrangement using all the dining room chairs and other bits and raced up and down the house for 1/2 hr before getting out the memory cards again before heading off for stories before bed. We also finished The Wizard of Oz.

For the record, bedtimes have reverted back to the old style for now - non-coercive, relaxed, yet parent-led - no set time, but somewhere between 7.30-8.30, seems to work well for them anyway as they visibly flop around that time. Nothing happened to take us back to this way, but after being away on holiday where things were all over the show (without drama) we just fell back into this pattern without much thought.