Brrrr, cold today!

The kids had a few imaginative games going on this morning which carried on for a few hours.

We then went and weeded a large pot out on the deck and Nathan wanted to plant a bunch of mint seedlings into it so we can make masses of mint pesto at some stage.

Bounced on the trampoline till lunchtime.

Watched a DVD.

Played with lego.

Read some Magic Faraway Tree.

Went over to Grampy's and played with all the toys there.

On arriving home Nathan wanted to play with the baking soda and water and then add colours. Since we only have one colour of food colouring he set himself a challenge to find other available sources from around the house. We talked about how in the old days when they didn't have food colouring in bottles, that people used (and still do) plants, flowers, vegetables to colour fabrics. We will try onion skins next time I save some.

I had peeled a beetroot for dinner, so he popped the ends into the water and got pink.

Then ate a tamarillo and added a few seeds into another glass and got purple.

He chopped up some limp leaves of silverbeet and got a pale green.

Danielle then got in on the action and added flower petals to her glasses.

A friend popped around in the early evening for 15mins, so a quick run around with their friend.

Sent and email reply back to his Nannie.

Danielle was looking at one of our activity books and wanted to make a little bed for her soft toys out of cardboard boxes and shredded paper. This is Nathan's one and it has things on top for "insulation" (Danielle's was down safely in her room with her while she sleeps).


(Nathan objected to the book's suggestion of making a cage - his is a free-range rabbit who lives in a hole under the ground and who can run free and do what he likes). This was actually *my* toy rabbit from when I was his age.

Finished the Magic Faraway Tree.

Snuggled down in front of the fire in pj's, listened to a story made up by me and then tried to go to sleep but nope, ended up in my bed! Danielle was already snuggled in her bed - her 5.30am wake ups are taking a toll on her!