Today is…Thursday Nov 18 2010
More Snow.
Ettin observed the weather in his cape and sunglasses:
Finding myself with a quiet moment (Galoot having fallen asleep in the bathroom while I was hanging laundry), I made good use of my inclination to clean the basement. Giant and Ettin joined me for a bit, and then took some books and toys upstairs.
A while later, Galoot woke up looking for a snack. Or maybe he woke up because Giant was on the potty yelling at Ettin not to touch his stuff while he was busy. Either way, I came upstairs and got the boys all a snack.
Then we did a craft.
To go along with our Mother Goose theme, we made some Humpty Dumpty Eggs to sit on a pattern filled brick wall:
They glued
They cut
Galoot observed
They stuck up their eggs
(tee hee, I think Miss Muffet may have more to worry about than a spider…)
Finished, my boys were looking for something else to do.
So they turned Galoot’s chair over and pretended it was a race car.
While there is nothing wrong with pretending, I was worried that 70 pounds of combined boys would do some harm to the infant seat. So I told them to play with something else.
Giant replied they didn’t have anything else.
I started to feel guilty for not having a lot of big fancy toys around. I mean, some kids actually have toy cars to ride in—and my boys were making due with their baby brother’s bouncy seat. And I wouldn’t even let them play with that!
Then I remembered the laundry baskets I had recently rescued from the basement.
Perfect.
If nothing else, make sure you have some laundry baskets for your kids to play with…they out perform big fancy toys any day!
They are race cars:
They are ice cream shops :
They are dog cages:
They are trains:
They are pet stores:
They are tunnels:
They are towers:
And Temples:
Four baskets + Imagination = Lots of busy fun
And, you may have noticed, I did not do a Gospel Art Picture or Morning Message.
But I do have a much cleaner basement!
And in the Mother Goose recipe books I was reading tonight, I noticed that the food for Humpty Dumpty was exactly what we had for lunch!
Which means I’m not off the ball as much as I thought I was.
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I am also very disturbed by the fact that Humpty is eating an egg. Just so you know.