One of those easy flowing days...

Over the past few days we've gotten outside into the garden by 9.30am since the weather is warming up and it feels like Spring is in the air.

The kids were watching a video of Wallace and Gromit this morning - it was quite fascinating and completely different to what they would normally watch. Nathan was surprised when I said that the movie was made from figurines that had been made from plasticine (which was explained to him as similar to playdough).

Today I felt inspired to bring the push-mower up onto the front lawn and Nathan wanted to have a go helping out mow the lawn which took a bit of coordination and getting the right groove for it to work properly.

We then made our way down to the lower garden and set to work on the potato patches we've been preparing. The kids jumped back into their mud-hole that they've been working on for the past few months (which we have now planned to turn into a frog pond soon which we're all very excited about). I dug trenches in the potato patches and Danielle helped me put the sprouted seed potatoes in the holes.

While Nathan was busy climbing up his tree I heard him talking to himself and sounding out words as he was looking around from great heights.

This afternoon we headed off to a gathering and Nathan sat there and counted in his head all the people that were there (22) and whispered to me how many there were. Although he's been counting higher than 10 for a while, I wasn't sure that he could actually count right the way through since mostly he misses the odd number out whenever I've heard him counting.

While the kids were helping prepare dinner, Nathan spotted a set of scales we'd recently been given in the back of the cupboard. So both kids were trying out different things to weigh and Nathan spent a bit of time counting each line to see which things were heavier.


This evening Nathan drew a picture that he explained was him pushing the push-mower and what happened when he cut his finger on the blade (those are tears going up towards the sky) last week. Then on the other side he drew a picture of what he was like before he cut his finger (happy - lol). The long squiggle line on the side is his arm with hand and fingers as they are getting squashed.