Thursday was a bit of a social day with two lots of visitors. We then made a Mexican dinner from our library cookbook (nothing really too unusual since we have various meals like this anyway). Nathan helped to make the guacamole.

We discovered this cool little hole in the side of a pot plant - super weird, we reckon a mouse must have burrowed this out, but no sign of it...eek. There was like a little ramp scuffed out all around the plant before going down into the hole with soil piled up around it and over the side.


Today was a bit of a mixed bag of activities...with spring just around the corner next week with it has come the seasonal winds. Urgh, I despise the wind and can't bear to be out in it, it does my head in. Fortunately the kids don't mind and spend time outside happily.

It started off with paper aeroplanes being sent to me with messages written on them and I'd send back messages. He then started to write in hieroglyphs.

Nathan wanted to prepare lunch, so off he went and boiled eggs, grated cheese, cut open an avocado and opened the tin of salmon. We discussed time when timing how long the eggs needed to be cooked for. He told me he felt like an adult making lunch.

Nathan told me a story this morning ("with a sad start and a happy ending" that he wanted me to write down). We were able to discuss words that could make the story more interesting in place or commonly used words. Danielle then had me write down a story that she told me.

I read some more of Story of the World to Nathan this morning that went on to discuss how traders used the rivers and seas to transport goods between countries. It inspired Nathan to draw a plan and then for the two of them to build some countries in the sandpit along with India and rivers and seas connecting them for his boat to travel down.


I then took down the pea plants that needed transplanting into the garden - they have outgrown their pots really and were starting to attach to each other.

I noticed the first self-sown calendula flower had opened as well.

They then popped Nim's Island on in the afternoon but took a break to wander around the garden with me collecting young Spring dandelion leaves and sweet violet leaves to dry.