Yesterday we had playcentre in the morning and in the afternoon we hung out at home...the kids played with the magnetix (Nathan made a little a-frame house with chimney and I heard him reenacting a story of Heidi with grandmamma and Clara coming to visit). Danielle then put on a CD in her player down in her room while I was pottering around sorting out the laundry - so we all danced and tidied together for a while.

I restarted reading Farmer Boy to Nathan at bedtime - we're about 3/4 of the way through and he's just started to take a keen interest in it. We had a quick recap of the story so far and he reminded me about how they had to pour water over the frozen corn seedlings to save them before the sun came up (that wee fact fascinated me - might come in handy this year since I lost some seedlings last year due to frost - if only I would get my butt out of bed on such a cold dark day lol).

Today we had a slow start in the morning, then went down to the garden to feed and let the chickens out. Our cheeky little fantail came to visit and was flitting around near us constantly cheeping. We popped our arms out and had a few close landings. We then tried holding out a branch for it, but it was just teasing us and jumping around.

The kids came inside and put together a few jigsaw puzzles. Nathan brought me a book on rabbits to look at together that I'd got from the library last week at his request, before heading out to meet with our unschooling group.

We made a homemade pizza for dinner and they both asked to go to bed at 7pm!