This morning I was lying in bed reading and Nathan came and jumped in and we had a chat and looked out the window at the wind blowing in the trees, the birds flitting around and the clouds racing by. We looked at the huge Oak tree in the neighbours front yard and we noted that it was bare and was a deciduous tree as we'd read about yesterday. I recalled to him about painting pictures of deciduous trees when I was younger and he raced off to get out the water colours and set himself up in my room for a spot of painting.


Nathan's rock "tool" that was successful at cutting a piece of string.

Nathan's been right into taking the temperature of all his food lately. His hot chocolate was the latest to get the test.

We then pottered around putting together our winter solstice/Matariki preparations as blogged here.
The afternoon was spent outside bouncing on the tramp, digging in the sandpit and helping dad with stacking the firewood.

After dinner (while all dressed up waiting to go out with Simon and Nathan to get a DVD) Danielle got involved with winching up her animals. She's been right into this lately.