In the rain

Today was a much needed break from all the rain we have had for the last couple of weeks.  Sunny skies and an afternoon at the park helped everyone's mood.  So, what have we been doing?
Cooking...

Play food and real sort of food.  (sort of real and sort of food, and why is it organic?  Organic pancake batter in a can?  I find something a little incongruous there, but maybe that's just me.)  I couldn't resist trying the batter blaster.  The kids thought it was fantastic.  We won't be getting it again, until we go camping that is.

Playing ball and tubes...

Drawing...

Note the fashion forward belt choice.  Also known as the kitchen strap wrench.  She puts it on herself and often turns it into a tool belt with her little hammer.

Gluing...

These little wood shapes are a lot of fun.  For Christmas we got a bag of little geometric shapes and a bag of the popcicle stick people.  Colored pencils and crayons work great to color them.  You can find something like it here.

Lots of building with cardboard boxes and things...

Lots of vehicles that are always morphing into different things and each other.  Flying trucks, swimming submarines, floating trains...

And a castle...

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  Complete with a working portcullis, keep, tower, and a trap door on the top that the Lego rescue helicopter uses to pull the Lego guy out of the dungeon.  The copters semi trailer goes in and out of the front gate.  It might be a little anachronistic, but I'm OK with that.

This book has been helpful.  Sometimes it is just good for looking through.

Buddy Boy wanted to do a little face painting after seeing it in the book.  So we did.

He sat patiently but as soon as we were done he went and washed his face.  He had more fun watching me do my face.

So, that's what we've been up to.  That and Legos and reading and a few computer games (pbskids.org and Lego.com) and baking and cleaning and preschool and kindergarten open houses, but that's another story...