Today was a home day again and it started off with Danielle's speech therapist coming over for an hour. The weather has settled right down and the sun was out. So mid morning we got out into the garden, let the chickens out and just hung out.

Nathan has been interested in our latest book On the Banks of Plum Creek and how the Ingall's lived in a dugout house and how Pa built them a new home. So he found several ways of creating his own house down in the garden. One was a cut out amongst the bamboo grove which will be work in progress...

We then rebuilt the teepee and he wanted to disguise it with some of the chopped down bamboo...

Just chillin'...


The kids got into the hammock and were pretending they were going to the moon, so I had to swing them as they flew, they then travelled to all the other planets before heading back to Earth to get into an aeroplane to visit various countries.
We then had our lunch down there, read some more On The Banks of Plum Creek which Nathan ran back into the house to bring down (unusual for him to want to read during the day since it's usually a before bed ritual unless he's really into the story or it's a rainy day).

We watched two of the chickens dust bathing and preening each other in the potato patch...

Spotted butterflies and bees in the pear tree...

Nathan was keen to go for a walk, so about 3pm we decided to walk up to the beach for a little wander and ran into some neighbours for a short chat before heading on.

Got home and the kids wanted to juice all the tangelos that had arrived in our vege box that morning, so did that and put them into an ice cube tray for freezing. They had also collected some beach flowers and wanted arrange them in a bowl of water.


We then prepared dinner and the kids sat down at the computer to listen to a story on CD-Rom for a while.

While the kids and I were sitting down to dinner Nathan asked me whether people in the olden days wrote numbers the same way as us. So I showed him how the Romans wrote their numbers out and he then wanted to google some more. So we looked up a couple of Chinese versions, Mayan and Egyptian. He was taken with the Egyptian hieroglyphs and wanted to copy them out. We read up on the Arabic numeral system and why it is called that (well it was fascinating to me and wasn't something I'd ever questioned before so was neat for me to learn something new today as well).


Wow, sounds like a lot packed into one day, but it just flowed all so seamlessly and driven by the kids that it just all happened.

(Have finally gotten around to adding all the missing pics now that I have my new comptuer).