Today was a home-day, which it feels like we haven't had for a while.

This morning we squeezed a bunch of oranges with a new citrus press that we were given which made the job much easier than hand-squeezing them over one of those cone things.

We then made a loaf of bread for lunch and while I was in the mood I made up some garlic butter and we coated some frozen bread crusts that have been piling up in the freezer and turned them into little crusty snacks.

The kids spent ages just playing together today - trampoline, sandpit, building huts and being animals.

We read many books.

Danielle spent about 1/2 hr this evening dancing to a CD she popped on. It was interesting watching her and she was basically choreographing a dance as she went. She had some pretty fancy moves in there lol. When a fast song came on she told me it would be too hard so moved on to a different game and made a volcano in the centre of the floor with "hot lava" around it.

Yesterday Nathan wanted to spent a bit of time reading some of his early reader books (I'd got a few of the Dr Seuss ones out of the library after someone from playcentre had suggested them). To appeal to his sense of humour, while he was riding around on the trike while I was gardening, I initiated a game where I'd say "you're a d-o-g" and he'd say, "I'm not a DOG" and I'd say "you're a c-a-t" and he'd say "I'm not a CAT!" etc. Later on he was inspired by something to write out the alphabet which he hasn't done before. It was like his writing was done by a different child, it seemed very smooth and regular in size which was interesting.

I am aware that we don't seem to cover what might be seen as "maths" as what other kids would be covering, but when I was discussing it with Simon last night, I realised that Nathan is certainly being exposed to many concepts on a daily basis and I just know that it will all come together for him. Just yesterday he asked me a few times what the time was, got my coins out of my purse and asked me what each of them were, helped measure out the portions for making drinking chocolate, used the digital scales when making the bread and noting the numbers rising and when to stop, when doing the groceries he pointed to a price label and told me that that is the price, counts random things all the time and told me today that 102 was more than 101.