Ugh! We've been homebound for about a week as the kids take turns having a cold. But it's been all ok really. We've had a few lovely warm days and a few horribly wet days. Good to balance the mix of inside/outside stuff.

Outside they've been...

~ Pole vaulting (well, Danielle showed me what she'd "discovered" by jumping high using a long stick and I told her about pole vaulting and we looked up some Youtubes of it in action)
~ Sandpit play - digging down so deep they disappear into the ground with just their head poking out (yikes, the thought of an earthquake occuring while doing that doesn't sound like fun)
~ Climbing the pear tree

Inside...

~ Nathan's been playing on the Reader Rabbit Maths CDRom
~ Danielle's been playing the World Explorer game on the computer
~ Danielle's been measuring all her soft toys to see who's the longest
~ Lots of reading of books. Loving seeing the kids tucked up in bed at night after we've read to them and them wanting to carry on reading until they're tired (Nathan's into a Magic Treehouse book and Danielle likes to look at all her picture books)
~ Stacking all the cuisenaire rods into towers
~ Nathan's been enjoying working through a puzzle/maze/brainteaser book that we found in the library
~ Cadoo and Snakes and Ladders

Tuesday

So much creative energy going on here today...

Danielle put some music on...

...that inspired Nathan to spend a large part of the morning writing a song (a love song at that!), then recording it (I was kicked out of the room while that was done, but then instructed to send it via Facebook to his friend's mum), and then written out all neatly to send to the intended recipient.

After lunch we headed off to the library from some fresh books.

Danielle got out a large box of letters and numbers and went about laying out and figuring out the numbers right up to 20.

Nathan decided to make some sums such as 100,000 + 2 = 100,002

Nathan found a box set of an adult quiz game in the bookcase. When he realised that the quiz was in fact too difficult for him he raced off to create his own quiz...

"What famous landmark in Italy leans?"
"Where was the first pizza (meaning modern day pizza) invented?" and had a multi-choice of Naples, Pompeii, and Mars.

Argh, so many missing things...

Nathan's been writing stories on the computer

His pin-board full of pictures of all the things he wants to be when he's grown up (oh, and freaky photos of him when he was sick with nephrotic syndrome that he likes to keep on his pinboard).

Nathan spotted a TV advert where they were asking for kids to audition as part of competition to appear in a TV ad. So he's been practicing his script and actions in preparation for us to video it. We watched some of the old ads online and he must have liked the look of the cards with letters on them and recalled that we had some similar cards so practiced to lay them out the same.

And watching Master Chef...which inspired the two of them to hatch up a cooking competition.

These are the "meat" choices they can choose from lol.

The two plates for judging...

Brain Box was all the go one day...

Inventing a machine that goes from land into the water...

Eating lunch with chopsticks...

Cracking a very LARGE goose egg that was given to us...yum...(Danielle was a bit scared of what might happen when it was cracked lol).