February 23 Toys and books ...

Tuesday:  Today was much like any other Tuesday with these three kiddos--lots of TOYS and high energy ... but today, I read a LOT of books to them too--which was a real joy. I had checked about 18 books out of the library last Wednesday. We had a lot of fun reading them together. These guys LOVE being read to ... and I LOVE reading to them. Win/win!

We played for a LONG time with the magnet tiles--always a hit with the little ones. I like them too--except Aidan was pretty intent on destroying ANYthing I built today. Sigh. It's OK--he got a real bang out of it!

What books did we read? Well ... we read a few by Dr. Seuss: "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back", "Oh the Thinks you can THINK!", "Oh Say Can You Say?" all of which a truly funny books with the oddest looking creatures and the cleverist and silliest of words. These kiddos LOVE words ... me too!

We also read: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Robot Beep" to the tune of the REAL Twinkle Twinkle song -- these words absolutely cracked Aidan up--Brendan too. And we read "Little Pea" about a darling green pea (!!) whose main meals consist of CANDY (an edict by his parents) ... Little Pea HATES candy. But if he just eats FIVE pieces, he can be allowed some delicious dessert--SPINACH--which is his favorite. It's a clever little story and always brings smiles to their faces. They actually HAVE this book at their house and read it all the time. However, they still enjoyed reading it with me here.

Dear Matey was in on all the fun today ... isn't he the cutest?

Brendan made a bunch of interesting stuff out of my plastic cups. He made helmets for the stuffed animals, and he made an ice house for Herbie (our talking stuffed hamster). We also watched a Disney movie--something about a super squirrel--this was Brendan's request. Erin and Aidan watched it while they played--which allowed me a little bit of clean up--not much, but enough to once again find a floor to walk on.

We ate our usual lunch of pasta for some and hot dogs for some ... Aidan ate his usual Gold Fish Rainbow crackers and cheesy chips ... you might ask: "Why do you let him eat like that?" Because for the past year or so, Aidan has been impossible to feed decent food to! His parents aren't pleased with this--because he is difficult to feed at their house too--but Kelly says they just take it a day at a time and rejoice whenever Aidan eats anything resembling healthy. We drove back to their house by 5:30 where I played with little Callaghan for awhile--although I neglected to take any pictures of him. He's growing SO chunky, crawling everywhere, and is a very pleasant little fellow.