Rainy Day Craft

Once again it is raining and has been all day. We originally had planned to go to playgroup this morning but the electrician got here very late from traffic caused by a wreck. As I could not leave them here, we hunkered down in the house and enjoyed some more solo time. This will all shock you, so sit down…..Owen did not play with any cars all morning!!!! I know, right? He didn’t play with any yesterday afternoon either. Has he gotten bored of them or just want to play with his other toys for once.

Our morning consisted of a lot of stickers, coloring, reading (he loves when we get new library books), puzzles, then downstairs to play trains, little people and lots of jungle gym on Mom (which I started) – I was lifting him up and sort of twirling him around. It was lots of fun.

He also enjoyed watching the electricians work. He’d run over to the door and talk about them going up the ladder and what the worker men were doing, installing a fan. I am also proud to say that minus the cartoon in the morning he always watches while I brush my teeth and hair, etc. we watched zero TV. We are not much on the TV use anyways but when you are home all day it is tempting.

I also decided to finally do a craft at home with Owen. He actually enjoys doing crafts but I am honestly not good at planning them so we always do them at Wee Play. But the work was done for me, I missed a class and the teacher gave me the craft from that day to do at home. It was two dinosaurs that we got to glue lots of different items on. Owen was very excited to do a craft at home, and we sat there for quite awhile putting each piece on and him talking about the colors and textures. It was fun I must say. The cutest part was the macaroni, he called them “manaroone” and collected them all out of the pile and then sprinkled them on the dinosaur. He was very patient while they waited on the counter drying. And when he got them back to play, we bounded them around the room and made the roar. I also have to include Owen did not like when the glue got all over his hands. It would show them to me and say “hands all sticky” and wait for me to wipe them off…a wet paper towel came in handy. It was a fun rainy day at home.

Dinosaur Craft

Lots to Glue

Little Worker

Gathering Manaroones

The Finished Products

“DINOSAURS!!!”

Playing with Dinosuar Craft

Gloomy Afternoon

As I said it has rained all day and when Owen woke from his nap it was still sprinkling a little so I asked if he wanted to go to the Redskins store, his response “FOOTBALL”. So off we went to the mall to return some items. The whole there he talked about the redskins and football. On the walk there I told him he could pick one thing out, so when we walked in the store he immediately grabbed this Redskins monkey, showed it to me and said “I want please”. I showed him how the hands velcro together and he put it over his head; it draped over his belly all the way down to his knees. We were at the mall for about another 45 minutes and he kept that monkey hanging there the whole time, while we walked around, ate our pretzels, rode the train, even raced on the track at Dick’s. We got some smiles.

When we got home, our Doggie Dooley system had arrived. It is a compost system for dog poo. As with any box Owen wanted to be involved in opening it. I explained to him what it was and then we read about it works. He really just wanted to play with the rake. He raked the floor nice and clean.  Then after dinner and after I had come back from walking the pups, Owen decided to come and talk about the “bin” again. He then proceeded to quickly run and get his water, open the lid, turn his drink over and announce “fill bin with water” as the water slowly dripped out. Well yes, you do fill it up with some water….once again he did listen to me while I was reading the instructions and he was raking the floor. It was a very fun and humorous gloomy afternoon.

I also have to include that if you don’t have an AquaDoodle for your kid, get one!!!! Sylvia gave one to Owen for his birthday today, and he loves loves loves it. After dinner he played with it for close to an hour (with a couple distractions here and there). The great thing is it is reusable. Thanks Sylvia!

Wearing Redskins Monkey

Monkey Smiles

Showing Daddy How he Rakes

Back to Monkey Snuggles

Two Monkey’s Climbing

Glancing Outside

Filling up the Doggie Dooley

He Does Listen!

I forgot to include this and just had to share because it made me giggle. This morning while we were getting ready to go to Sylvia’s house, Owen was very ready and I still had a couple things I needed to gather. Well he grabbed his shoes and started to whine. Then out of nowhere looked at me and said “No whining, use your words.” I giggled and said that was right. He then told me “Go to Sylvia’s please.”