Danielle's been playing with her new teaset a lot since she got it for Christmas.

Nathan spent a lot of the morning playing with a bottle of bubble mixture. He was doing all sorts of tricks and discovered what he could and couldn't get away with. He had the bubble moving around the wand in a circle if he rotated his hand, the wand was used to bounce the bubbles, he noted that the big bubbles floated slowly and the smaller ones tended to rush to the ground.

Mid-morning we headed down to the library to return a massive pile of books and came home with a new lot.

After the kids had some lunch and watched a DVD we headed outside. They headed straight for the pear tree and began climbing. Danielle had a lot of confidence to start wanting to move up one of the limbs to a higher spot. Nathan was up on his usual pozzy and removed a supple branch, twisted it around and announced he was the king of the tree before it was dismantled and he was back to rope tying. Danielle then wanted one too, so another was removed and she wanted to be the Queen of the Butterflies. I asked her if she'd like to decorate it with some flowers which we did.

And here it is now on her wall.

The kids then wanted to fill the paddling pool and while Danielle was doing that, Nathan dropped his old bike that is now Danielle's into a dip in the ground and used it as a "training bike" coz the rear wheel would spin around.

This evening Nathan felt inspired to make ship. So he headed outside to collect up some cardboard boxes and spent a while constructing it. It had a steering wheel, sides, a swimming pool and passengers.