Today

Ok, so today Brent HAD to go to work snow or now as there is only so much leave we can burn on snow days.  I thought I was going to take M to Ms Courtney's, but was disabused of that idea after talking to Brent about his trip to work-- yes, I am a wimp and did not drive the possibly 3 mile round trip-- HOWEVER, I did not wind up in a ditch with two small children which was super. Anyway, so I took the day off and hung out with the kids. Here is a very brief run down of what happened next:

We played:

• LEGO Monster 4 Game
• LEGO DUPLO My First Zoo
• Qwirkle Board Game
• The Learning Journey Puzzle Doubles Find It! Solar System Floor Puzzle
• Sequence Game
• Let's Go Fishin
• Kirby's Epic Yarn
• Fisher-Price Little People Animal Sounds Farm
• Fisher-Price Imaginext Spike Jr. the Ultra DinosaurImaginext 
• Disney / Pixar Toy Story 3 Playset TriCounty Landfill Junkyard
• Baby dolls
• Necklaces & Dress-up
• B did some more donating(??)
• Bird watching
• Chase
• Racing (timed)
• Sang from Nancy Cassidy's Kids Songs: A Box Set of 2 CD's for an HOUR straight before my voice got tired
• Craft time - painted hands for snowflakes, stamping, coloring a wooden car with markers, coloring, stickers, gluing bits (and maybe some scrapbooking by Mama during M's nap, but more on that another day).

We read:  (assume each was read between 1-5 times)

• Each Peach Pear Plum
• Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?
• Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? My First Reader
• Miss Spider's Tea Party: The Counting 
• Waddle!: A Scanimation Picture Book (Scanimation Picture Books)
• Dinosaur's Binkit
• Pajama Time!
• But Not the Hippopotamus
• Color Surprises: A Pop-up Book
• Diego Seek and Find Baby Animals
• 101 Dalmatians
• M read many imaginary stories as well which was very cool.

We ate:

• Homemade Cinnamon rolls
• Cereal (obviously)
• Frozen blueberries + Bread and Butter (snack)
• Corn Potato Chicken Chowder  (M had this for lunch for 45 minutes....)
• PB&J on Homemade Bread
• Graham crackers (afternoon snack)
• Tuna Alphabet Pasta
• Roasted Butternut Squash
• Birthday Fudge

Housework:

• Two loads of laundry
• Two loads of dishes
• Cleaning the table and the floor every time M eats...
• Cleaning up many post-play messes

That is a small taste of our day.  I'm pretty sure I've forgotten MANY things.  In short, if you gave us toys over the last few weeks, they ARE getting played with!  Today I definitely savored.  I mostly stayed away from technology.  I focused on the kids and they focused right back.  It was a long day, but so fun.  Hard to believe how many things we did, but I'm so glad I had this "vacation."

Ps.... yes, we do have just a bit of cabin fever.

P.P.S. --- this is not a normal day