Make Believe

Every once in a while when I feel like cleaning up a bigger than usual mess, I get out the big pink legos for the girls to scatter around the house. I keep them up in Hope's closet cause I don't want to deal with the mess every day, and because it is more exciting to play with something they don't see every day. There is a mommy tip for you, rotate which toys your kids play with so they don't get tired of all of them and you don't have such a huge disaster to clean up when your kids just won't pick up after themselves. I don't have many mommy tips people, so enjoy it. Relish it. You won't hear many from me.

Hope surprised me by making horses with the legos. She told me she had made a horsey and when I turned to look I was quite impressed that it indeed looked like a horse.

Later she built some llamas, which favored the horses but were still somehow noticeably llamas. I'm not creative with legos. Give me a pile of legos and I can build you a tower, that is about it. She must get her genius from Ben. Noah helps too sometimes, but I think he mostly makes guns out of them. I don't think I would be as happy to turn around and see her holding a lego gun though.

Noah is always making little crafty things. I saved a diaper box for him and he cut it up and taped it into a duelling...thingie. I don't remember what it's called, but still impressive.

He usually uses up most of the tape and leaves the cardboard inventions lying around the house which in turn gets ruined by pairs of little running feet.

Since we haven't really been out of the house for a week and half (not including the zoo) I have needed many distractions while I take my turn being sick. I was telling Ben that I really think that mommys should be exempt from illnesses that they treat their children for. Just doesn't seem fair, does it? Anyway, out came the cute little tea set from Uncle Mike & Mark! I love this tea set, so it doesn't get used much because I'm afraid it will break. The tea pot already died a couple of years ago in the toddling hands of Hopie and today a saucer met the same demise. Sad, but it has been put to good use in the last two days.

Look closely at her lips, she is making a pouring sound for the creamer. When she first started playing with it she couldn't keep from smiling. She loves this little tea set too. Soon after Noah joined in and they started playing something like Sherlock Holmes while having "tea."

A couple of monkeys and a cat also joined. Then they were off to solve some kind of mystery and little sister found an abandoned tea party.

Look at the smile on her face. It's so GREAT! It's like she can't believe she found such treasure. She even took her pacifier out to enjoy her air tea.