After a few days of failed attempts to do things we've been wanting to do...
The kids asked for coloring pages after our morning walk in the rain. Callie specifically wanted a coloring page to "teach" her letters (which she already knows), then the rest of the kids trickled in with their requests: a tiger for Annie, a T. rex for Airius, and an Olivia page for Iambe. Callie hasn't had to do a lot of coloring in the lines type work, so I was impressed with her outcome.
The play-work was interrupted when the flower girl dresses for my brother's upcoming wedding showed up at the door. The girls were beside themselves with excitement!
But once the (frighteningly pristine) white dresses were off the girls, they asked to paint the clay figures they'd made from air dry clay a week or so ago. So we did. They'd used the cutters from their Play-Doh set to make shapes in the clay, but Callie also made a free form face. Airius's sculpture was too fragile, with lots of long, spindly pieces, so it broke before he could paint it. He handled it well.
At cleanup time, Annie took it upon herself to reorganize our bookshelf, putting the books which belonged to each child in separate piles and the shared books in another.
Dinner found Airius and Callie back to magnet experimentation, making long chains of metal objects from their magnets then hooking them back up again to make magnet necklaces.
Tonight's Bedtime Story: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The kids asked for coloring pages after our morning walk in the rain. Callie specifically wanted a coloring page to "teach" her letters (which she already knows), then the rest of the kids trickled in with their requests: a tiger for Annie, a T. rex for Airius, and an Olivia page for Iambe. Callie hasn't had to do a lot of coloring in the lines type work, so I was impressed with her outcome.
The play-work was interrupted when the flower girl dresses for my brother's upcoming wedding showed up at the door. The girls were beside themselves with excitement!
But once the (frighteningly pristine) white dresses were off the girls, they asked to paint the clay figures they'd made from air dry clay a week or so ago. So we did. They'd used the cutters from their Play-Doh set to make shapes in the clay, but Callie also made a free form face. Airius's sculpture was too fragile, with lots of long, spindly pieces, so it broke before he could paint it. He handled it well.
At cleanup time, Annie took it upon herself to reorganize our bookshelf, putting the books which belonged to each child in separate piles and the shared books in another.
Dinner found Airius and Callie back to magnet experimentation, making long chains of metal objects from their magnets then hooking them back up again to make magnet necklaces.
Tonight's Bedtime Story: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
I sympathize with the following post -- our Shepherd puppy is about a year and a half old, with no sign of slowing down and growing up yet in sight. Also, it seems like the comment link is broken on that post?
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