The kids had a busy day. Just little projects they go themselves into all day. C started asking me to spell words while he wrote. When I got the gist of where it was going I couldn’t decide whether or not to object: “D has stinky feet”. I decided as long as they were both having fun to let it go. Well it became an insult war – poster boards, paper airplanes covered in insults (“C smells like manure”, which D then verbal defined for his brother as ‘cow poop’ in case he didn’t know just how insulted he’d been), and a small illustrated book. It’s the most writing they’ve done in a while!
C made submarines out of small drink bottles. After decorating them and tying the lids on with string, he filled them with various amounts of water and took a bath to see which would float best. While he was doing that, D started playing with the magnets on our fridge. He spent quite a while trying to force to strong magnet to gether, chasing one with the other and making it flip and fly together. hen he tried to seal the fridge and freezer doors with large magnet stuck to both.
We had started the day bowling and boxing on the wii. They all hopped on and off the computer today. All of them play Club Penguin and the boys frequent the lego website. I don’t mind the computing, I just love seeing it mixed in with other stuff throughout the day. You know, mix up playing on the lego site with actually playing with legos – they did that too today. And bionicles. And B put makeup on one of her dolls.
Today was friday night pizza night. Then B helped me make apricot-plum crisp. She loves to measure and stir. She loves to help cook period. We had tons of apricots from our food co-op. I was going to make a fresh cherry crisp as well but we finished our oats. Have to go to Sprout’s bulk bins soon.
So no overall big moments today. We never left the house. We never did anything big. But they kept busier than they have in a while just going from project to project all day.
