Oh the weather outside is frightful (ly cold... to me) but the fire (furnace) is so delightful... And since we have no place to go (because daddy will be gone until past bedtime tonight)... Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (fake snow that is easy for mama to clean up).....
Easy math question for all you scholars out there. What do you get when you add one container of white playdough with generous amounts of silver glitter? Give up? You get indoor "snow-dough"! A huge hit this morning with both SweetPea and PorkChop (and yes, I did give my 4 month old snow-dough to play with and no, he didn't attempt to eat it at all).
This one may turn into one that we do more often just because it was so fun. Not only for the littles, who happily spent 15 minutes and an hour and a half (depending on which little) happily sculpting, squishing, throwing, rolling, creating their dough, but it gave mama a few minutes to work on some Christmas presents herself.SweetPea made us some snow-dough pizza, followed by a host of dinosaur friends to come and share it with us. She also had a snow-dough dance party on daddy's speaker while mama went to the bathroom, thus canceling anymore snow-dough fun for the day. PorkChop happily squealed while squishing his, putting it into his lap, staring, and then picking it up again. Before him, I never would have thought to try to include the "baby" into our activities based on age. Now? I am finding that just about everything that I do with SweetPea, I can do with PorkChop on some level. Baking cookies? Hand him a cookie cutter to play with. Sorting colors? Hand him some pom poms to hold. Coloring at the table? Yep... let him explore a crayon. I think of all my P's, he is the one with the least amount of "toys" but the one getting the most richest experiences out of early life.
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