A Rainy Inside Day

Yesterday was rainy, cold and windy and was actually quite nice to have a reason to have an inside day.

The kids busied themselves playing with the papier mache tunnel they'd made.

Watched Cats on video.

Read books.

Drew pictures.

Nathan finished writing his Mr Invisible book and wrapped it up for Simon.

Both played mummy and daddy games with the soft toys (I love how Danielle when she's playing has started referring to her babies as "little one" as in "sleep now little one", "hello little one", not sure where she's got that from). They carried on with the game today and wanted me to help tie up a couple of the playsilks to make hammocks for their children to sleep in.

Played with the magnetix.

Nathan wanted to play a numbers board game we have. I'm not keen on it at all (it was one that my mum gave us and was one we had as kids lol) but I decided to get out the cuisenaire rods to help calculate. It was a multiplication game (had to roll two dice to move and jump the horses over the fences) so really too advanced for where he's at, but I guess it's a way of showing that numbers can be used in different ways. He figured out counting by two's when I lined them up that way if it was a 2 times number. I discussed 1 times tables as well which he "got". So yep, I guess it was of value even if the overall game was too advanced and he actually surprised me by wanting to play it to the end, I thought he would have enough of it before then.

Danielle's well and truly hit the "why" stage. It's felt like a long time coming, but is neat to see her wanting to know more about the world around her and how it's been in her own time.

After dinner once it had stopped raining but was still chilly, the kids wanted to go bounce on the trampoline. So to stop their clothes getting all soaking I suggested they put on their togs. Nathan decided his wetsuit might be a better choice lol, so off they went.