Out and About this week :-)

We had a lovely day getting out of the house today and meeting a new group of local home schoolers that I knew nothing about last year. We went out to Bents Basin for a swim and picnic. It was a really beautiful place, I'd never been there before. You can see Jaden in the corner there, he was looking for fish and trying to catch them with a small shovel (with no luck of course, not the best approach for fish catching LOL). He actually did quite well socialising. He went out with a couple of boys his age on a blow up mattress into the water, but once they went in for a swim he pulled back cause he doesn't have much confidence in the water and was not keen to swim in a place where you can't see the bottom and there are fish. Eventually some younger boys came and helped him with his 'fishing'. This group meet regularly at parks, playgrounds etc so it will be good to be able to meet up with them again.

Bethy had a lovely time exploring in the dirt and sand, especially trying to eat the leaves and twigs, she was one grubby bubby when we left!!!

We also got out of the house the other day and headed to our church playgroup. Bethy went exploring more than she has done there before and crawled all over the grass and into the sandpit and then ended up finding her way through this pop up tunnel. There's no stopping this active, curious little girl anymore :-)

Jaden had fun in the sandpit. He dug a big hole then got the 3 and 4 year olds to bury him. It was funny afterwards though when he was very wriggly cause there was sand in his pants LOL, needless to say he came home and had a shower!!