Well this post is a hodge-podge of kid stuff if I've ever seen one. Not much crafting going on around here - unless you count by the kids. I even gave up my sewing time on Sunday and worked on lesson plans for homeschool. Lots of catch-up going on around here. Throw into that a training meeting for the daycare in Jackson Hole, which took all of Saturday since the weather was lousy. I drove about 40 miles an hour all the way up and back, plus had a ton of shopping to do on top of the training. Then late Saturday night, my daughter kicked off a round of the stomach flu at our house. Most of our daycare kids (or their parents at least) opted to stay away from our germs, so it was pretty quiet around here today. I think we're over it now... hopefully.
The other day I finally figured out that the baby will sit in his Bumbo seat after I feed him and visit with me. I set him on the table and sit right in front of him, always right there with him. He thought it was pretty cool to get to hang out with me and be able to see me at the same time. Usually I can't put him down for more than a minute.
Here he is after we removed the bib.
My nearly 8 year old is pretty handy with his Etch-a-Sketch. Here's his version of the baby in his Bumbo.
Not to bad, eh?
He drew the same thing with a paper and pencil.
Here's another Etch-A-Sketch picture he made right before doing the one with the baby. In case you can't make it out, it's Jesus, the cross, and the empty tomb with the stone rolled away.
The three year old got ahold of my scissors and went to town on some scraps - thankfully paper scraps and not my hexagons, which I had out on the table at the time.
He was very careful about it, and the first time he managed to cut a piece off (rather than just fringing the edges) he was so excited. He said, "I cut yellow!"
Even though he was doing well with the big scissors, I figured he might be safer and have better control with the kid scissors, so I made the switch. He wouldn't let me take the big ones off the table, so I had to watch until he wasn't looking and slip them away.
The scraps were left on the table by the seven year old, who had been working hard to make a football helmet. Here the baby is modeling it.
And here's a better view on the three year old.
Nice combo, eh?
The seven year old and three year old have "real" play Bronco's helmets. They like to get right in the baby's face with them, because he'll grab the face mask and try to suck on the bars.
He loves all the attention.
The boys also decided to make a playhouse out of the piano and bench. No lack of entertainment around here with all these boys!
At the end of the day, Daddy read them a bedtime story - Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site. Pretty cute!
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