Goo... plus the last few days...

It's been a busy weekend thus far (we have today off too for Martin Luther King Day). Friday: as far as school goes we did some math and worked through Hop on Pop, which C.O. enjoyed a lot more than his readers. I then read Grasshopper on the Road out loud. In the evening, my BIL came over for dinner and movies - we watched Kung Fu Hustle, which was a bizarre, but somewhat funny movie. Saturday, we went to vist & have lunch with one of my co-workers, which was pretty nice. Then, when we got home, BIL was still here, so the kids asked him to play Tinkertoys, which he did for about 2 hours. We read a couple of stories - Uncle Elephant, and Amelia Bedelia, but other than that we didn't sit down for much! C.O. spent a good bit of time outside on his scooter, while C.J. alternated between her scooter & collecting leaves.

Yesterday, we started out with story time - Outside Over There, and The Bee Man of Orn. Then we went to the park and played with D4 and H3, while their mom and I chatted and played pass-the-baby (she has a beautiful 2 month old girl). The kids ran, played kick-ball, climbed like monkeys, and C.J. and I built fairy houses out of sand, twigs, leaves and tiny pebbles. She is very much into fairies lately, which is fine because I think I have just about every fairy book under the sun... like Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Album, Good Fairies/Bad Fairies, the Flower Fairies, etc. When the wind got too cold and harsh, we came home, had a late lunch, and then went off to the grocery store.



At home again, we made GOO! Cornstarch + water + food coloring = hours of slimy, bizarre fun! The only drawback was because I added a little too much food coloring, so the kids' hands are now a faint and ghoulish greeny blue. I'm very, very glad I put newspaper everywhere before we started - it made cleanup really easy. Aren't their garbage bag art smocks nice? Anyhow, it gave me time to cook dinner, unload & reload the dishwasher, and make banana-blueberry muffins.