Today was one of those odd days that combined a bunch of stuff that just all happened on it's own. Love those days.

By 9am we were down in the garden collecting pretty much the "final harvest".




Then we sat down to read some more of our library books. We have been reading a collection of stories from the Milly-Molly-Mandy series. I used to love reading these as a kid, and it's amazing how it all comes back when you get back into it (including the cute little village map on the inside cover). I'm really enjoying reading about the sweet, innocent, good old fashioned fun that these kids back in the 1920's in a quaint little English village are enjoying. It's all very simple, but the simplicity still has a way of the kids being interested in the village blacksmith, the shop owner who cuts fabric, a simple afternoon of dress ups etc.

While making lunch Nathan brought to me one of the early reader books and was figuring out he could read backwards if he started at the end of the sentence lol.

After lunch we headed over to do a spot of housework and gardening at my mums before heading back home. Nathan jumped on the computer and started to play his Reader Rabbit Math CD-Rom. We've probably had this for about a year and he's been gradually working his way through it. I noticed in the past few days that he's been on it more and has worked out a few things that I thought might have been a bit too complex for him. Was neat to hear him calling out - hey, I figured it out! Unfortunatley his curious fingers had him checking out the control panel of the CD and he managed to wipe his saved settings, so he'll be back to the beginning again. He didn't seem to be bothered by that though.

After I had dinner cooking I played a game of Traffic Jam with the kids. It's neat that Danielle can join in most of the simpler games we play now and gets right into it. Nathan then brought out the basket of blocks and train track to turn it into a town. To which Danielle added cars.

While we were eating dinner Nathan jumped up and retieved some paper. He sat down and began to write while saying "5+5=10" (but written as 5=5 10). And continued on with some other problems he wrote himself out. Danielle drew a map of the house with our bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and accessories.