Today...

Nathan wanted to do some large scale painting using some of the test pots from various projects from around our home. So he found some large wood panels for each of them and they spent a bit of time creating. Danielle was copying what Nathan was painting.

Then things temporarily turned to custard as Nathan was busy hacking away at the bushes with the hedge clippers and must have disturbed a wasp nest as he came away screaming and crying that he'd been stung. Then again. He and Simon came running upstairs and then Simon got stung. After retreating inside and applying all sorts of things and giving a few homeopathic remedies both ma boys came right 1.5hrs later.

This led on to checking out our Life Size Guide to Insects book which has been a goody over the past year. It's pitched at the perfect level for Nathan for identifying insects without too much text (there is an adult version which goes into greater detail that will be good when he is a little older).

The kids had the book out during the week too while they identified a few random bugs around the house.

After lunch Simon and the kids went for a bike ride...home in time for dinner, they then cleared out the car and had fun vaccuming it...they then sat down with some new workbooks I'd picked up that afternoon and then headed off for stories and bed.