The kids continued adding to their Big Book about Me.

Our organic vege box arrived this morning while Danielle's speech therapist was here, so Nathan started unpacking it and discovered a cool new fruit that we hadn't seen before. Google told me it was a Custard Apple - well, something told me to type in custard apple and there it was...;) And yes, it really was heart shaped.

After lunch they disappeared out to the sandpit for a while.

I then joined them down in the garden and both helped remove large weeds as I dug them up. We talked about how the soil in the garden bed we were digging was particularly good because of the high number of worms in each forkfull. It tied in nicely with a book on Dirt that Nathan and I read about yesterday. As I was digging, Danielle spotted a "new" insect we hadn't seen before. Nathan identified it as looking like a cicada. Upon checking out our Life-Size Guide to Insects it indeed was a cicada, but was a Nymph - and they live underground for at least 3yrs before climbing a tree at dawn and breaking out of their shell.

We read more library books...rainforests, a little chapter book that Nathan read half of to me, a Korean folktale and got part-way through an autobiography about a boy growing up in Communist China.