So this is the first thing I saw when I opened my weary eyes on Monday morning. Depsite all our best efforts to minimise potentially violent media, it’s funny how children still pick things up, even from a just a moments glimpse at a flickering display TV as we rush through Westfield. I suppose it is fitting that he wants to be spiderman..considering that this week saw the grand opening of Ariel’s Amazing Ark of Bugs and Other Sundry Creepy Crawlies. He now has his top shelf in his room lined up with jars of the aforementioned creepy crawlies, ranging from sea snails (thanks to a trip to the beach last Thursday), to earthworms, to bush crickets. I am dreading the day that he decides to branch out into frogs.
Well, with the public holiday last Monday our rhythm for this week has been a bit more fluid, and we’ve been quite te social butterflies. Wednesday, we got together with our little Natural Learning group at Blenheim Park, which i always enjoy because of the amazingly yummo living food creations that people bring, and the beautiful like-minded company of course 
and the kids had fun climbing trees in defiance of the sweltering heat.
Then on Thursday Ariel went to the beach while Josh & I stayed at home doing some chores in preparation for a dinner party we held on Saturday night. Friday we went out again to visit another lovely expecting mum and her young son and all the boys had a great time, and we were all very happy that the rain was finally here.
So even though we have been out & about all week the boys and I did manage to get back into our morning yoga rhythm. I’ve decided that our circle time/movement circel will consist of our yoga practice on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday, and other movement games on Tuesday & Thursday. From past experience, I found that if we did the yoga every day it becomes a bit boring (and this way I have time to come up with new stories for each posture). Here’s some pics of my little yogi; 
We were also extremely pleased to recieve the final set (for now) of our homeschooling books from Christopherus Homeschool Resources (www.waldorfbooks.com) wth many many heartfelt thanks to Opa & Pa-Peter & Daddy for buying them for us…….
It’s very timely as now (for some crazy reason ) people have started asking about our homeschooling journey, have we officially begun, what is Ariel actually learning, blah balh blah….all with good intentions no doubt, but a little annoying when you have to keep explaining that he has actually been lerning from birth (if not before) and if he hadn’t learnt anything he’d be a vegetable (which do actually have some intelligence..but that’s another story)…so just because we don’t do 9-3 every day and he doesn’t have a uniform and he isn’t reading Shakespeare or doing 4 unit maths yet doesn’t mean he is not learning. If you ever feel so inclined ask him about the workings of an ant colony or how to engineer mouse traps out of blocks, or what the ten commandments are…he’s no dummy. Or simply keep reading this blog. Have you stopped learning since you left school?
What Ariel has learnt this week……how to play/work with others that don’t always share the same opinions (relationships), how to engineer blocks in a way that they won’t destroy the whole trap when aiming to catch a mouse (analytical thinking), taking care of sea snails (responsibility for another life), how to master the ‘gum tree’ pose in yoga (balance & co-ordination), etc etc..ad infinitum………..
