Over the last few days...

We've been swimming at the pools.

Played with friends and swam in the river - I popped a lifejacket on Nathan and he would enter upstream where it was deep and float his way down with the current and swim to the edge and repeat. Danielle spent her time building an island from the surrounding pebbly sand and observed the "erosion" going on as the water lapped away at it.

Read a little more of The Wizard of Oz

Danielle wanted me to read one of the Beatrix Potter stories about the Fierce Bad Rabbit and then reinacted the story using her soft toys and various props.

Nathan's been sitting down reading library books to himself.

Friday was a day of runnings errands - to the bank, grocery shopping and Danielle had her "B4 school visit" as her final wellchild checkup.

There has been a lot of train track and block construction going on.

The kids have been watching a DVD I found at the library featuring Bindi and Australia Zoo. We will be visiting there later in the year when we travel to Aussie for my sister's wedding, so thought it would be a good introduction to it for them both. Nathan was inspired to build his own animal habitats from available materials around the house and called me in to check it out.

Had passport photos taken today which of course lead onto conversations about what they are and why we have them.