No photos, and much of the same really over the past week!

Nathan reading to me and Danielle, and me reading to the two of them.

Painting and craft making using cardboard boxes and cutting out pictures from magazines.

Riding bikes, walking, scooters, playgrounds...

Sandpit and garden play

Playing with friends

Went on a medicinal herb and weed walk on Saturday that Nathan in particular really enjoyed (especially since we covered a lot of plants that he knew from our own garden or travels).

computer play - Starfall for Danielle, Reader Rabbit Maths for Nathan. Both kids were quizzing me on maths problems.

Continuing on with our chapter book and really enjoying it.

The Brain Box, more brain box and more again - it's been the focus this week! Mostly tinkering around until he gets his own circuits working opposed to following the instructions.

Nathan tried out another Keas group and got right into it and told he wanted to come back and didn't want me to stay lol. Monday was his first time going along and they all sowed sunflower seeds as well as playing games out on the field. I notice the plan for the next few weeks will include a scavenger hunt, kite making and kite flying, craft making and a Christmas party. Sounds fun!

We have also joined the local gym club and both kids loved it, so we'll be back for that once a week (and for the hour between their classes we can go to the library to switch our books over).

Last Friday the we went swimming with Grampie and both kids made huge advances in their water confidence. Nathan has gone from just holding his breath under water for a few seconds to diving under to pick up grampies watch (only a couple of feet deep) and swimming along under water for about 10 seconds. Danielle wanted to go on the water slide with Grampie but first had to be ok about getting splashes of water on her face - so once she'd gotten ok with that she loved the slide!

We've been cooking Mediterranean style meals over the past few weeks - tonight's was Spanish. The meal discussions always turn to populations in certain countries, languages that different countries speak, our own ancestry (Maori and English from DH's side of the family and English and Irish on mine).