Yesterday morning we hung out at home. The kids wanted to "play school" and asked me to be the teacher. How ironic lol. So I took the opportunity to "teach" Danielle some letters of the alphabet and work on her speech therapy hehe.

In the afternoon we caught up with some good friends who were visiting nearby. It was neat to see the kids just pick up where they left off 6mths ago.

An email reply came back to Nathan from his Nannie (he'd sent her a message last week) and surprised himself at being able to read probably 90% of it including words I would never have guessed he knew lol.

We did our grocery shopping this morning and Nathan has taken to wanting to tell me which item is the best value (I let him know which ones are the same size) and he reads the label to figure out which price is cheapest.

After lunch we went down into the garden and popped our first lot of garlic cloves into the ground and I planted some seedlings I'd picked up at the supermarket. The kids spent a bit of time climbing the pear tree, stomping out paths between the vege beds (chickweed is growing abundantly atm), Nathan spotted worms while Danielle swung her baby on the swing.

The rain then came down and we made our way back inside to read a bit more of The Magic Faraway Tree. The kids then wanted to build huts from the couch cushions, and decided that the rooms they made would be in the Faraway Tree. Danielle wanted to be Silky (the pixie) and Nathan tried out various characters (the angry pixie, saucepan man and moon-face). I was designated the role of one of the children from the cottage and we all went on some adventures visiting different lands.

They popped on a CD I'd picked up from the library the other day called Fatcat and Fishface. Such a cool and funky CD. I really enjoy listening to it too. I'd never heard of the band before but they've been around since the late 90's and won children's music awards. I even needed to go and buy us our own copy (the Best Of that was released last year!). The kids just both got crazy and danced like mad to it.

Nathan found a lump of charcoal that fell out of the fire last night and decided to try out some writing using it.

Some of the library books I'd grabbed the other day were a series on the history of Kitches, Bathrooms and Bedrooms. Nathan's been particularly fascinated in the Bathrooms one (along with the mildly gruesome stories that accompany some of them).

This evening Nathan decided to open up a large packet of toilet rolls we'd bought today (yep, we're all class around here with our homeschool supplies!). He spend ages stacking and knocking them over (I'm sure some here are now grossed out that they are now all rolled over the floors?). As he was stacking he was asking me questions about which I thought were higher etc and I took the opportunity to explain odd and even numbers to him. He likes asking me all sorts of maths problems throughout the day (has realised that more than 2 numbers can be added together and likes to give me a random bunch of numbers and ask what it is).