After they got bored with paper craft, we decided it was morning tea time, so they had boiled eggs (fresh from the chicken’s bum that morning) and Milo in the garden, and stayed out there to play. K came inside for a feed but didn’t go to sleep. Apparently I don’t have much milk – I asked her if there was any there and she said “All gone, I suck it all up!” *g* She watched a Play School episode, but B stayed outside, by now in the rain. She started out up in the cubby house doing something Soopa Sekrit, then built herself a small cubby under the bench in which to experience the joys of not getting wet while in a small, cramped and probably smelly tent. Meanwhile I stayed inside and watched it pass over on the rainfall radar. What do you mean, modern life is disconnected from nature?

K had fun revisiting her Legoville “car game”, then she and B both played with the bubblewrap game for a while. B listened to two episodes of Classics for Kids, this week on Benjamin Britten, while doing more drawing, and K played outside with the dog (and made entirely too much noise). I found a cool-looking experiment on creating a “naked” egg, and when I was telling B about it I asked her various questions about how she thought this feat might be accomplished – and she was able to work out the process pretty easily from a hint about how limestone caves are formed. Clever scrub. She was very pleased to hear about the Digital Frog virtual dissection CD-ROM which I have ordered (it’s free) as a complement to the Introduction to Biology course she also wants to do. I knew she’d love the idea, as she has talked about wanting to cut things up to see how they work before, and it’s not exactly something that we would do if it involved starting with a living frog…

There has also been more playing in the rain, plus a lot of crafty activity which has left the dining room looking like an explosion in a sequin factory!