Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Cold Weather


The walk from the parking lot to the grocery store yesterday caused all three of my little boys to cry ... and stung my eyes and lips in painful bursts. It has been below zero here (that is below zero, not just below freezing) until noon every day for the last week. Painfully cold.

We are looking for things to do inside ... besides playing with playdough, playing indoor fort, chemistry experiments, sliding down the stairs, playing restaurant, doing crafts with egg cartons, writing letters and numbers, watching television and movies, doing plays, reading books, drawing Star Wars space ships, playing Legos, doing computer games, having friends over, going over to friend's houses, singing songs, rhyming words, dancing, listening to Sesame Street music, telling stories, reading comics, painting dinosaurs, painting tractors, playing castle, playing explorer, playing hide and seek or playing with Floam -- all of which we have done already in the past three or four days. I'm running out of ideas!

1 comment:

Toby Palmer said...

I am impressed with your list Lael. Your boys are lucky to have a mom like you!

My sister did something with her girls - she spread a sheet or blanket on the floor and then fill a large container with rice and let the kids dig in it with sand shovels and funnels etc...Long grain sand.