Home-bound days

The weather's been pretty awful lately, so we've been hanging out mostly at home with only the odd outing.

The kids have been inventing a few new games and carrying on with old ones (taking the baby doll camping, playing puppy and owner and Danielle playing with her dollshosue).

They've both been doing lots of lego building and magnetix construction.

I didn't really realise, but this morning Nathan was watching a show on TV which is a fun science show where they try out different experiments etc. He was fascinated with the wheelchair that climbed stairs and stood up tall. Then this evening after we'd eaten our roast chicken dinner, he announced that he'd put his chicken bones to soak in vinegar for a few days because he was going to see if they went soft. He also wanted to soak an egg in vinegar for a week and turn it into a bouncy ball. Not realising where he'd got these ideas from, I googled it and sure enough.

Nathan and I read Captain Underpants during the week and the illustrations inside have inspired him to make his own book. So over the past few days he's been adding to it. It has adventure stories with pictures, a cover page, and a page with "speech bubbles". It's been cool to see his writing and spelling advancing and rather than only knowing how to spell his own name, he now has a few key words that he writes down from memory (and other words that he's attempted on his own, although they aren't quite right aside from the starting letter and maybe one or two in the middle).

We've been looking at our library books some more and today read a few pages on Friction and tried out a couple of the experiments they listed.

Here they both were attempting to separate two books with the pages interlinked. He even tried the experiment on his Grampy this afternoon who also couldn't separate them.

Today was bitterly cold (awaiting the storm of the decade, although not so intense down our way) and the kids snuggled in our newly arranged reading corner by the fire with Nathan reading Danielle his book.

Nathan and I started to read a book he'd been given for Christmas called The Adventures of Vin Fiz by Clive Cussler. Seems to have grabbed his attention right up and he's enjoying it so far.

And who would have thought a basic paper shredder would have been so entertaining fr so long??