We've been catching up with friends again now that Nathan's all back to full health.

I started to read to the kids a book that my mum bought Nathan last year...George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt by Lucy and Stephen Hawking. Have only read the first few chapters and so far is a fun read.

Already, it's inspired the kids to build space ships with their Lego...

Black holes...(crickey, can't even get my own head around those)

Youtubes of...Space shuttles launching and sonic booms

Discussions about evolution theory and creationism

How astronauts live when up in space...

Danielle spent a lot of yesterday revisiting her interest in the butterfly life cycle...she was dressed in her butterfly wings most of the day. She decided her butterfly would need a nest for when it rained, so she spent about an hour building a nest from twigs. Nathan meanwhile spent a bit of time trying to nail small branches together to build a hut, but that proved a little frustrating.

Somehow this lead onto me mentioning the Butterfly Effect (Nathan was discussing how you couldn't hear a butterfly flap its wings unlike a large bird like our chickens or a Tui). But, since I know next to nothing about it (aside from cause and effect and the classic idea of air disturbance from a butterfly flapping its wings causing changes in weather patterns all around the world), and we were driving in the car at the time, it's been parked until I remember to look it up and pitch something at his level (and mine lol).

Nathan figured out how to add large numbers in his head today - he realised if he was to break down the numbers into chunks of 10s and add them up and then add on the small numbers afterwards, that it wasn't so daunting to do (such as 35 + 25).

Last night Nathan was asking me how chef's cook food with a flame in the pan. Not something that I was knowledgable about, so a bit of research later and I was able to show him some Youtubes this morning on flambe cooking.