This morning the kids popped on a video and chose Madeline. At the end when the scenery changed into a painted picture, Nathan raced off and got out the paper and paints and started to draw the same scene (and yes I'm a bit crazy (or irresponsible or lazy...) sometimes - check out the water AND paints right on top of the carpet...).

We went over to nannie and grampies for lunch and when I went and did some work with my mum, the kids watched some of Annie with Grampie (gosh, had a bit of an orphan theme going on today!). They then all went outside and helped grampie dig some ditches down his driveway to lay some drainpipe.

I bought a Mad Libs book that arrived in the post yesterday. This evening Nathan and I got it out for a bit of a play. He loved creating all the silly stories and it quickly got the hang of providng nouns, verbs, adjectives etc as requested.

I've been noticing over the past few months that Nathan likes watching any cooking type shows if he spots one on TV (I've personally never been into them). We don't have the TV just left on and the kids don't often watch programmes outside of the morning kids shows (mostly DVDs other times). However, if the DVD has finished and for some reason flicks onto the TV channels and he's spotted a cooking show I've often found him sitting down intently watching. Not that I'm surprised, since he does enjoy cooking and helping me out in the kitchen.

Then tonight I was watching a herbal medicine programme on TV and he came into the lounge after his bath and sat down and watched all the potions the man on TV was brewing up.