Notice the pine cone bird feeder, that Dylan made at school? Yea, um, we haven't seen too many birds. I think they turned back around and went south. I'm thinking of joining them. Today, the sun is shining brightly... but it is 36 degrees.
Since we have been stuck inside, I have come to the sudden realization that I need to take a day and go through Dylan's toys. As his play gets more and more creative, it gets harder and harder to avoid having my home look like a toy store delivery truck explosion.
(These are "volcanoes").
(3 Points if you can guess the theme. And, no, the theme wasn't "big mess", as I previously thought).
I was talking to a friend while her son, and Dylan played, and I asked her how she controls the toy clutter with 3 boys. She keeps toys in a locked shelving unit, and they have to clean up one thing before asking permission to take out something else. I get the logic, but I just couldn't do it. I WILL put some of the toys in the spare room for a while, and cycle through them periodically, but I will also keep reminding myself daily that CREATIVITY IS MESSY.
This is unrelated, but I just had to share, since it is my buddy Jenn's birthday today!
(His birthday card for "Pop-Pop")
4 comments:
I have "zones" for toys. The playroom is Alexis' so she can trash it as much as she wants to without me saying a peep. The family room, however, has to be cleaned up when she's done playing. She thinks I haven't figured out that when she doesn't feel like cleaning she throws all the family room toys into her playroom, but -oh- I know. I just don't care since I still get my clean family room out of the deal.
Gertie went through the gather all the tiny things stage. WOW did I hate that stage. I finally got her a huge bag of foam shapes all different colors and playing with those distracted her enough.
Theme: 5 little monkies?? I have no idea
Is it a color theme? Turquoise and yellow? I love the volcanoes--they are so creative. I also love homemade birthday card--so I like this post very much!
Snow. I woke up to snow this morning. And apparently I am going to wake up to 5 inches of it on Wednesday. The upside? A high of 73 on Friday. Oh, Spring . . . why must she be so bi-polar?!
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