Saturday saw the kids and I visiting a friend with her little baby (and the kids got to sit in their classic racing car) before we headed off for a friends birthday party.

Sunday we woke up to the rain and have spent a few very low key days mostly around home.

Despite the rain, Simon took the kids out in the bike trailer to the video shop to pick out a new DVD.

Later on, as we sat down to dinner, Nathan wanted to light the candles and turn out the lights. He quickly decided he wanted the light on again when he couldn't see his meal, gosh, ya wouldn't want to eat that bit of vegetable you might not see eh?? LOL

More rain today and the kids have been busy...

After the usual morning TV, Danielle found some craft supplies in one of the drawers and sat down cutting and pasting for a while.

Nathan wanted to write a thank you note for his friend for inviting us to her party. So he had me write out the message and he copied it out. He then popped it into an envelope ready for posting tomorrow.

I finished reading Heidi this morning and Nathan has decided he'd like to try drinking some goat's milk. And it needs to be drunk in a little bowl like Heidi. We thought it would also be neat to make it a real Alm meal like Heidi as described in the book. So on Friday when we do our grocery shopping, we'll buy some goat's milk, also get some cream to try making our own butter, make a loaf of bread and eat it with cheese (not sure that we'd be able to source hard goats cheese though!?). I found Heidi such a lovely book to read - Nathan didn't appear all that enthused throughout, but definitely wanted to read and find out more. It introduced quite a few new concepts and words to him - some of which were tricky to explain, and others he grasped as soon as I reworded them or gave an analogy that related to his life.

After talking about making our own butter, Nathan asked if we could make some honey. So although he knows that bees collect pollen to make honey, he still wondered if we could do that - so we jumped on YouTube for a while to see some bee keepers tending to their bee hives and collecting honeycomb and honey.

We decided we'd have soup for dinner tonight and Nathan suggested I make a Cabbage and Potato soup. Um mmmmmm, well, I've never made that combination before (and didn't sound all that nice lol), but I did have the ingredients required, and google threw up quite a few recipes that just look like my usual leek and potato or spinach and potato soups. So he went off to write me out a reminder. (Interesting how he's drawn some lines on his paper to write between). The end result wasn't too bad and he scoffed it down.

Last night I read a library book on the solar system to Nathan and he really wanted to make his own model of one. He decided that last week's cat-made-from-vege-box could now be transformed. So he set to painting the inside of the box and attached a picture of the sun and a few planets (his solar system only needs 3 planets).


The kids jumped on the computer for a little while this afternoon (Nathan was showing Danielle how to play Starfall and they then loaded up one of his games) until we had an older friend come over for a visit, it's really neat to see the kids all playing well together and having a great time. Before finding our unschooling friends, we hadn't really had the opportunity to play with older kids before, so the group's been a very welcome addition to our daily lives.

(Do you know how many times I googled/researched just to write this post (checking recipes, grammar, to confirm my "knowledge")? Who says we need to be teachers to facilitate our kids learning? I certainly know that *I* am learning right alongside my kids and it's great!)