Hmm, there's a pattern here...

We had another really nice relaxed and easy-flowing day. I looked back at my previous similar blog entry and it was also a Tuesday. Our Tuesday's always start off with Playcentre, then we just hang out at home for the rest of the afternoon. Seems that it's a good balance for all of us. The kids get to be active and a variety of activities on offer for 2.5hrs and then after lunch (and myself a rest and a cuppa) we just hang out together.

Today we spent our afternoon...

~ Kids watched a DVD while eating lunch while I chatted to a friend on the phone (a common sight of my two snuggled while watching TV)

~ The kids wanted to refill our bird feeder on the front fence, then they moved onto filling up the paddling pool and had a play around in that for a while while I weeded the herb garden
~ I made a mid-afternoon cuppa and grabbed a pile of books and we sat outside in the sun and read from a kids book on Ecology. We discussed food chains and food webs (and herbivores, carnivores and omnivores), an area map showing local ecosystems and discussed what our area would show on a map, recycling waste and what we do in our family (Nathan got enthused and talked about using some tin cans (flattened with a hammer) to make a house and glass bottles for windows ??) and acid rain. We then heard some noisy birds in a neighbouring tree and Nathan raced inside to get his binoculars - so we spent a bit of time trying to spot nests in the branches to no avail.

~ Nathan wanted to play on the computer on the Lego website with a game called junkbots. After about 10mins he decided to copy some of the game screens using his own lego (funny, last time he played this game he created his own game on the floor using newspaper and would move up "levels" when he passed).

~ Danielle headed off and dressed up Nathan's cuddly dog with her bracelets and hairbands before falling asleep on her floor
~ We went down to the garden to collect some lettuce for dinner (Danielle in particular loves to collect vegetables and herbs for our meals) and feed the chickens.

Last night we were looking at our kids library book on Rembrandt. One painting that Nathan wanted to investigate further was of the Anatomy Lesson where the professor was dissecting the body of an executed criminal. Obviously this led to many interesting questions.

We're in between chapter books at the moment, so Nathan picked out the AA Milne poetry book which he enjoys listening to.