The day started off with our weekly visit from the speech language therapist for Danielle (who is making great strides ahead). She loves the games that she gets to play and I notice almost immediately the progress that we've made. Having had glue ear for so long, it was like she just needs encouragement to converse rather than not being able to do it.

It seems that Thursday's are needing to be renamed "vege-box-craft-day". I can barely get the box unpacked before it's been whipped away and transformed. Today it turned into a cat (I love it's tail all cut out of the box and shells for eyes).

The kids watched a few dvd's and videos over the course of the today - the weather was bleak and a little chilly.

After lunch between rain showers we let the chickens out and hung out in the garden for a while. Nathan has a rope permanently around one of the tree branches that seems to always have something different attached to it. I am still required to help with getting his knots to stay tied, but he gives them a good go first.

Danielle discovered a few dandelion flowers in the grass and went around picking them all.


Nathan wanted me to sword fight with him this afternoon - when I was getting right into it he decided he might need his shield that Simon had made him for his birthday lol.

Nathan had me in absolute stitches this evening - it probably wasn't even that funny - it was the contrast of what I was "hearing" and what he was "doing" that just had me laughing. I could hear him in the dining room struggling and getting annoyed about something not working out for him. So called out if he'd like some help which he did. He was partly wrapped up in a blanket and asked me to wrap it around him properly. "Sure. What are you dressing up as?" I'm trying to be a big sausage. LMAO. I'm sure it's not that funny, but oh well, it appealed to my whacky self at that time. I think it was the way he told me in a serious and determined way.

While helping me prepare the veges for our roast dinner, Nathan asked me what a Tom Cat was (one of their Hans Christian Andersen videos had a Tom Cat on it). So to explain that I felt I needed to also explain what a Tom Cat was not (which then lead to questions about how they neuter the cat and does it hurt etc).