Here’s a record of what the boys are into at the moment, for fun, for later 
Both of them are into ancient Egypt at the moment.
We’re exploring it through books, and movies, conversions, museum trips, play…
They also like learning about the human body!
Especially Ethan likes to sit and pour over books for ages
They both love learning about wild animals!
One of their favorite shows at the moment is “Wild Kratts”, which is all about the amazing features and lives of our world’s wild animals!
They love going to the zoo, the museum and scitech (our amazing hands on science museum).
We’ve been to scitech twice last week 
They like climbing up trees and rock walls, especially Leo!
Ethan enjoys drawing and writing a bit at the moment.
He’s really into organizing things neatly sometimes, putting all his pencils in the pencil case just the right way, packing a bag or suitcase in just the perfectly organized way.
He also like baking!
These are the absolutely delectable honey cakes Ethan and I made today
Leo really loves playing these amazing and challenging games on the ipad, they are adventure quest style games.
The first one we all played and loved together was “Machinarium”, which is just beautiful and challenging and sort of relaxing at the same time.
The first time it took us many many days to play the entire game, now he plays through it in an hour!
“Monument Valley” is another one that has been popular and is really lovely.
It’s an intricate 3d labyrinth game with the most relaxing background music.
We’ve also discovered a new indoor play centre!
It’s a little far from us, but they currently have free entry (whohoo!), and it’s pretty great.
Because it’s biiig, and sort if run down and a little dirty and dodgy, and no staff ever checks to see if people are following the rules
The boys have had many hours of fun, we’ve been 3 times in the last couple of weeks!
They love swimming at the pool, they are so great at it now!
Nancy took them yesterday and said they both swam about 150m
For a few weeks we went swimming every day!
Now that they’ve mastered this skill they’re happy to go about twice a week.
Both boys are acutely aware of voices, and especially the tone of voice!
Sometimes we’ll be walking past someone who’s talking, and Leo will say to me, sort of in awe, “mum, this man had a beautiful voice! ”
And both of them are constantly analyzing my tone of voice, it’s quite intriguing!
They both pick up on the slightest bit of emotion in my voice, and comment on it.
“Mum, you’re talking in an angry voice! ”
Me, annoyed about something, but trying not to show it “no, just my normal voice! ”
“No mum, you’re talking a little loudly… Can you talk in a nice voice? ”
Or, softly, “Mum? Are you feeling a little sad? ”
Or “mum, I love your cuddly voice :)”
What else is happening in Leo and Ethan world?
So far, neither of them like being around many people. Groups freak them out a bit, almost every time.
And often, they really do not want to interact with anyone at all, except the people in our little family. I think at the moment being around each other satisfies and sometimes overwhelms their need for socializing sufficiently.
So currently we have about 3 catch ups with friends per week, and then of course they see Maria and Fred and Nancy every day.
Oh, one thing they really do enjoy though lately is chatting to people when we’re out!
The checkout lady at the supermarket, or the life guards at the pool, the people at the petrol station, or just random grown ups, all get greeted, waved at and talked to.
The boys love it!
I do too
That’s all for today.
Bonne nuit!
Xx
