A catch up...

Right, so back at the weekend...

I got the kids some more pavement chalk and they spent ages drawing roads, houses and journeys to their friends and rellies house's.

Here, I spotted Danielle transporting herself down the hallway by transferring chairs and cushions over themselves so she didn't touch "the hot lava".


On Monday afternoon we went and played with some friends we hadn't seen for quite a few months (difficulty getting together with school routines and not living all that near each other).

Yesterday we went down to the shops to post Nathan's thank you letter to my great-aunt who always remembers their birthday's and then on to the park. Danielle started collecting a bunch of seeds we had spotted a few weeks back. We bought them all home and they kids got them spinning. It's funny, as soon as I saw these seeds a few weeks ago I had an instant recall of times as a child playing with them and showed the kids how if you throw them up they will spin down (I thought Simon would remember these, but he'd never played this game).


They spent many hours playing with them and they remained on the floor for most of the day and all evening until I vacummed them up this morning.

Today was horribly cold and blustery, so we stayed home all day.

They both were making parachutes...

Then safari animals from lego...

Nathan constructing sentences on the fridge while I was doing some much needed deep-cleaning in the kitchen...

After dinner Danielle got out one of her workbooks and wanted to go through some of the counting, addition and subtraction exercises with me.

Reading at bedtime inspired them to draw what they'd eaten that day (the book was discussing eating all colours of foods)...


Nathan spent a bit of time at bedtime discussing volcanoes and a nightmare he'd had the previous night. I wonder if it's been triggered by the book Under the Mountain (although it doesn't discuss exploding volcanoes), but his line of questioning is focused on the people of Pompeii. I can't recall when this topic first came up, but it's certainly been a source of discussion from him for about a year now, and every few months he seems to revisit it. Tonight I was able to help him realise that in these modern times we have systems and ways of being alerted to some natural disasters and how we learn from history and how that can be helpful for how we now live our lives and decisions that we make.

Latest DVD's: Nim's Island...again (requested by Nathan, he loves that she's homeschooled) and Nanny McPhee.