Icy Day Activities

The last few days, my crew has spent most of their time indoors. Yesterday, I decided to keep Cooper home from preschool because the weather conditions looked bad- and were predicted to get worse throughout the day- and add that to the fact that his preschool is about 20 minutes away and I was fearful we may get caught on icy roads. Today, our public school district cancelled school so both boys were home. It was wonderful....not having to be anywhere at a certain time. We all stayed in our jammies and just played. I really enjoy days like this. Almost like God's way of saying "slow down and enjoy each other."

For Christmas, Hudson got a magnet set so we got that out and did a few experiments. He learned that opposites attract and the same repel each other.

His magnet is pushing the same colored magnet away.

He learned that magnets work through plastic, wood and even water. He has a magnet under this lid and is driving the magnetic car around. He thought that was pretty cool.

My favorites were the little body builder guy we made and the fact that when we were ready to clean up, all the pieces stuck on the magnets.

Cooper is really into dump trucks. He likes to scoop up his dominoes and then dump them into the bed of another truck.

After breakfast this morning, the boys looked outside and saw a few patches of white on the ground. They kept asking to go out and play in the "snow"......they were unhappy with me when I told them that there really wasn't enough snow to warrant us getting bundled up to head outside. I could tell they were going a little stir crazy and that they needed to release some energy they have been storing up over the last few days.

Sooo, I pretty much became Mom of the Year in Hudson's eyes when I informed him that we would be bringing the bounce house inside for the day. His eyes lit up and he was so excited.

Cooper, on the other hand, wasn't so sure about my grand idea. He was nervous at first and the loud noise of the blower scared him. It took him a good 15 minutes to warm up.

But once Monkey Boy finally got inside, he had a blast. These boys jumped a ton today and this can only mean one thing............they will sleep like angels tonight!

I've Got the BEST Job!

Although times at our house are crazy and I many times feel like I can hear the circus theme music as I attempt to juggle my busy house and kids, I still can't help but feel that I've got the best job ever. I recently read something that sums up how I feel about motherhood: "Mothers agree that indeed the years do fly. It's the days that don't. The hours, minutes of a single day sometimes just stop." I don't know about you but I sure do feel this way sometimes!

Last week, Hudson's class was studying dinosaurs. It just so happened that I picked up this little dinosaur kit in Canton a couple of weeks ago so we decided to get it out and start digging!

Hudson's arm grew quite tired in a short amount of time so guess who was privileged to finish the task?

Let's just say that this project was not designed for someone like me who HATES chalk on their hands. I'm also surprised that my arm still functions considering I spent 30+ minutes sawing away into a rock with nothing more than a wooden dowel.

We had a good time though and it gave us a chance to talk about fossils and dinosaurs.

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We've been so proud of Hudson lately and his desire to ride his big wheel. I've blogged about it before about how he would never ride his bike. I think being up so high just scared him. This is a perfect way for him to learn the movements of riding and eventually we can graduate to a big bike.

When Jason was putting the big wheel together, Hudson was adamant that he put all the "dials"
on one side. Silly boy!
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This morning Hudson lost another tooth! That makes # 6 and he currently has 4 teeth missing.

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My mornings alone with just Cooper still are precious to me. We have a ton of fun together. He's just getting so big!

This morning we built the world's tallest marble run (okay, so probably not the world's tallest but the tallest in Cooper's world)

And we worked just about every board and jigsaw puzzle we own.

So although as moms we wear many different hats- dinosaur bone excavator, bike riding cheerleader, assistant to the tooth fairy, and missing puzzle piece locator (just to name a few)...I still think it's the coolest job around!