People

 Yes, terrible photos but one has to document the first drawing of a person however one can. In this case with my phone since it was drawn on a train window. Aleifr proclaimed these as people and if you look carefully you can actually see a body and four limbs. The head on the other hand...I find the head a little disturbing. Perhaps that is how he actually sees people?

 Of course once I started taking photos M had to join in too...

 Who is Billy Booksie? We don't know either but apparently he is an integral part of a local literacy promotion. The main drawcard of this event to M was that some of the teens she knows from homeschooling groups would be reading. of course, being homeschoolers ourselves we didn't end up leaving the house early enough to catch them. In our defense it seemed ridiculous to force her to stop what she was doing to go and listen to someone read aloud when what she was doing was in fact reading aloud...

 Anyway, we managed to catch the very end which was at the fire station much to A's delight. Our friendly fire fellow demonstrated some of the equipment. I must say I'm quite reassured we are in good hands should we need them. As the blurry pictures attest; this guy is fast!

 Captivation.

 Of course the obligatory sitting in the truck photo. We actually got to look inside a bushfire truck as well and he was happy to answer M's questions about the differences. After looking in every nook and cranny of both fire trucks we headed back to the local bookshop to add to our collection...

 What is an outing on a freezing wet day without hot chocolates?

Super construction

A castle as tall as himself. He looks quite pleased about it too.
Aleifr has begun to show quite an interest in writing. Mostly O's at this stage. O's and numbers. He has enough phonemic awareness to recognise that his name starts with a sound associated with o. Despite being able to pick out his name from a list of family names, he isn't convinced when we tell him it starts with A. This boy is turning out to be even more of a self-directed learner than his sister. I didn't know that was possible.

Preschool in the park

Inspired, this boy is. Ola asked what we were doing today and I answered that is was a school day as on Mondays we are usually home all day and M does some workbooks or online learning as well as her violin practice. In response he announced that he wanted to do preschool in the park, and that apparently this involved painting. In particular the paints he was given by a friend for his birthday.
Ok. So we packed some "preschool" and "school" activities and here we are. Eight degrees and windy but they are having a blast!