The kids get to relax

After being away, we decided to have an ordinary at-home day today. We so had it lucky with the weather for our trip - today is back to rain!

The kids started off using yesterday's vege box to make a robot which they took turns using and "controlling".

Nathan got out several board games over the day - the shopping game (he's getting the idea that the counters have different values when exchanging them for items), snakes and ladders and traffic jam. Danielle is showing interest in joining in these more advanced games, and although they are mostly too old for her she enjoys teaming up with me and joining in.

They watched the BBC Walking with the Dinosaurs video and for the first time Nathan was really interested in watching it and was recounting things he was listening to and relating them back to me and tying things in with other books on evolution we have read (and realising that not only cows have calf babies when he was watching about one of the underwater mammals).

Later on, he wrote a letter to a friend who isn't well at the moment and when we went out to get groceries he posted it off. While I was making up my shopping list, Nathan wanted to write out his list too (he announced "I love writing!").

Danielle spent over an hour playing with her dolls house - she relocated all the furniture and dolls to the play table and had them playing up there for a while, then they all packed into the car and were transported to the couch where the game continued. I heard a lot of dialogue to do with holidaying, bathing and eating.

While out shopping, Nathan asked if we could have soup for dinner. However, I had already prepared dinner so suggested that he make up a menu plan for the rest of the week. So we sat down and he spent a bit of time making suggestions and asking me to dictate them out for him to write down - it's now stuck on the fridge. Tomorrow night we are making pizza. I like it when all I have to do is cook - half the task has been taken care of with someone else deciding what to make!

Over the past few weeks we've had many in depth questions...

~All about how and why Simon's shoulder got dislocated (falling off his bike)
~Caves and everything about them
~What real life cow pats look like
~Snow (and that it wasn't powdery like he expected (as in flour))
~Why do some other kids go to school (and is totally ok about knowing that other children do their learning at school and he does his at home)
~Asking the meaning of every "new" word he comes across

And I'm sure over the approx. 10hrs in the car for our holiday we had so many more questions that I can't remember even half of them!