We made a start on reading Heidi today.

Danielle got out the Let's Shop game so we did a bit of buying and selling (she was bothered that she had to hand over her money to buy items and would have preferred to keep her money and not buy - I like! lol).

Nathan then got out Mancala again and whipped my butt.

Danielle painted some pictures inspired by Heidi.

Nathan quizzed me on new words he must have been mulling over: buffer and dock as well as a few phrases I can't recall.

Nathan helped me peel a heap of green apples we had hanging around from our vege boxes over the past few weeks - so they were stewed up for the freezer (next time I will get the dehydrater off my parents to preserve them that way).

After lunch we headed out to see some friends and both kids got into some more painting. Danielle painted a rainbow with a unicorn on the top and Nathan painted a very long dragon that looked like one of the brightly coloured costume ones we saw at the Chinese New Year Festival earlier in the year. We will pick it up at some stage (was still wet) and stick on our hallway wall I think!

This evening Danielle was intent on making a gift box to put a bunch of her things in. So we googled how to make a bow from ribbon so she could put that one of her boxes.