I am very very bad at building forts out of sheets.
I barely get it up and somewhat stable, and then Lucy wants to climb on top of it. And then Emma gets upset that half of it caved in. And then SHE wants to climb on top of it. And then I take it all down and say that we’ll try again tomorrow.
And then hope that they forget I said we’d do it again.
What is it about being under a sheet/blanket/whatever that makes kids so happy?
I went to Pinterest and found a few ideas on how to make forts out of sheets, so I guess I better get to practicing. And buying clothespins.
It was 70 degrees last Wednesday, but our back yard was still a muddy mess, so I sent Emma off to the front porch for some painting.
It took me 30 minutes to find the paints and a brush [we used to have a bunch of brushes - now we have one straggly piece of junk brush that I may have used to dig something out of the garbage disposal], but she didn’t mind … and it was worth it.
Okay, okay. I guess I went a little overboard with the pictures, but she doesn’t get to paint very much with a curious sister who eats everything she touches.
Yeah … I’m talking to YOU, cutie pie.
Even though the SUN finally came out and is super bright and fabulous, it was still a little too chilly to take Lucy outside with her residual cough on Tuesday. So we were all having some serious cabin fever. After building a really awful fort that lasted all of about 4 minutes before it fell down [seriously, I need a tutorial or something], the girls were still whiny and bored.
I really wanted to wash every piece of linen we have used for the past week to try to de-germ our house, so I pulled out the trusty roll of wrapping paper that a neighbor left behind when they moved, taped a big hunk of it to the floor and threw a couple buckets of crayons down with it.
Emma’s newest obsession is tracing her feet and hands, and then measuring them with a ruler. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE having a 4-year old?
Lucy just wants to eat the crayons. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE having a 1-year old?
And then Emma exclaimed that she was “exhausted” and that she wanted to tape it to the door so daddy could see it as soon as he got home.
So that’s what we did.
And then Lucy discovered that she wasn’t sitting in my lap and needed to remedy that ASAP.
Another successful 12-minute activity.
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I decided to follow Emma around during Lucy’s afternoon nap. It’s not very exciting, but this is our life.
We have Arthur and DW this week, so they are along for the ride.
Okay. Let’s go ahead and discuss the state of my floor right now and get it out of the way. It’s been rainy and muddy for days, and we have two dogs and no mudroom. So I have determined that it is pointless for me to mop. The end.
Then Lucy woke up, and I decided to just keep the project going for the rest of the day.
It’s days like this that I realize how amazing and independent and fun she is!
Now that Lucy is becoming a little more tolerable in the car, we can actually go places and do things!! It’s amazing!
So to celebrate the beginning of the new year, we took the girls to the Riverbanks Zoo, and it was seriously the most beautiful day. Can’t beat 70 degrees in January!
Even though Lucy didn’t nap the whole day [and I even tried wearing her in the Angelpack for a LONG time!], we still had a great time. I sure do love hanging out with my family.
Something about the people and the gorilla and how very similar they looked really cracked me up. I’m a Creationist, so I’m not saying anything about evolution here … just thought it was funny. :)
Lucy’s pose here killed me dead.
I hate snakes. I am really really scared of them. But behind glass? They move so gracefully and beautifully, and their coloring is always so unique – I can’t help but take tons of pictures of them.
Upside down jellyfish
