Today is…Thursday Oct 28, 2010
Today’s activities were brought to you by:
A mother in a book.
This mother really just wanted to read.
The result: Chaos.
First, dancing. And singing. Repetitive, annoying, but helpfully distracting singing:
Doesn’t look that crazy, you say? Then you must try hard to imagine The Dog singing clips of “Who Let the Dogs Out?” while Giant sang along. And The Dinosaur adding “Please Don’t Stop the Music,” at sudden starts and stops as Ettin pressed the button repetitively. And the fighting over who got which one. And the baby crying.
And the momma trying to read.
Realizing the futility in this endeavor, and that I needed to add some Order to the day somehow, I brought out the Gospel Picture, and we prayed.
The Gospel Picture focused on the prophet Mormon abridging the plates:
Giants first question was, “Why is his foot on the paper mom?”:
Huh.
Good question. I’m still pondering on that one.
(This is an especially cute question since his Daddy has been very insistent lately that no one should ever-under-any-circumstances step on a book. Ever. Apparently this has been processed mentally somewhat by Giant…though not in practice.)
The next comment was, “Oh, that must be Joseph Smith because he has his book.”:
Close Giant, very close.
We talked about how Joseph Smith wouldn’t get that book for a very long time, but because Mormon did such a lot of work we are able to read from the Book of Mormon now.
Then we looked at our Morning Message:
Giant was more interested about tomorrow, Friday, and a party we’ll be going to.
Ettin came over to contribute:
Since my kids were a bit drippy nose-wise, we didn’t go out to Stay and Play.
Instead, I tried to distract them with various activities so that I could read my book some more.
PlayDough:
Lincoln Logs:
Wow, the Chaos I allow for a little reading time!
I finished my book before lunch.
And then spent a long time cleaning.
After lunch and the little ones were napping, I pulled out a craft:
We were getting ready to assemble and glue the skeleton when Galoot woke up cranky and hungry.
So I quickly stuffed most of the skeleton away before he was broken up and used for parts.
I did say most.