More playtime ...
Late afternoon Monday, Jes and Di and the kids came over to share dinner with us ... and then the children stayed and the parents had a date night. Monday night is Grandpa Jones's train night over in Hudsonville, so that left me and the kids to find something to do around here worth doing!
I lit all of the candles on the mantle of our fireplace, turned the fireplace on, and then we played with our Nativity set. We acted the whole Christmas story out with the angel appearing first to Mary and then to Joseph. We did their journey to Bethlehem. We put the shepherds and the sheep out in the fields where the angel announced the birth of Jesus, and then we went far away to the East and had the Wise men follow the star to Bethlehem to worship Jesus. It was a lot of fun, and the kids really got into the story!
Tuesday morning, we played for hours with LEGOS. I'm so thankful we had a bunch of them leftover from ... who knows when?!
And in the middle of the kids building LEGO spaceships, Sabrina SKYPED us from Austin. Christopher was really amused by Jackson! Emma was just glad to be able to see inside Aunt Sabrina's house and talk her a little bit ... as well as to SEE cousins Olivia, Karis and Jackson. What fun!
Matthew thought cousin Jackson was very funny too ...
After our lunch, we got all the Playdough toys out and spent at least an hour making everything under the sun ...
Emma made us a whole bunch of cookies to enjoy ...
Matthew hardly needed any help at all with making his batch of cookies ...
Christopher, however, was intent on making snakes with his Playdough ... big ones and little tiny snakes too! However, none of my pictures of his snakes turned out.
Christopher also enjoyed creating a huge traffic jam with the micromachines downstairs ...
And Grandpa Jones helped us put together our Bean Bag Toss game and all of the children played that for a really long time.
Christopher used our new foam puzzles to play school ... he was the teacher! We played all day Tuesday and I am exhausted today! Playing with three little children is pretty hard work actually ... I hope it doesn't sound like I am complaining ... I'm just stating facts. I'm SO thankful to have this time to spend with our grandchildren and absolutely would not trade it for doing anything else; but there is a reason we old folk are not primary caregivers ~ we're too old! :)
I lit all of the candles on the mantle of our fireplace, turned the fireplace on, and then we played with our Nativity set. We acted the whole Christmas story out with the angel appearing first to Mary and then to Joseph. We did their journey to Bethlehem. We put the shepherds and the sheep out in the fields where the angel announced the birth of Jesus, and then we went far away to the East and had the Wise men follow the star to Bethlehem to worship Jesus. It was a lot of fun, and the kids really got into the story!
Tuesday morning, we played for hours with LEGOS. I'm so thankful we had a bunch of them leftover from ... who knows when?!
And in the middle of the kids building LEGO spaceships, Sabrina SKYPED us from Austin. Christopher was really amused by Jackson! Emma was just glad to be able to see inside Aunt Sabrina's house and talk her a little bit ... as well as to SEE cousins Olivia, Karis and Jackson. What fun!
Matthew thought cousin Jackson was very funny too ...
After our lunch, we got all the Playdough toys out and spent at least an hour making everything under the sun ...
Emma made us a whole bunch of cookies to enjoy ...
Matthew hardly needed any help at all with making his batch of cookies ...
Christopher, however, was intent on making snakes with his Playdough ... big ones and little tiny snakes too! However, none of my pictures of his snakes turned out.
Christopher also enjoyed creating a huge traffic jam with the micromachines downstairs ...
And Grandpa Jones helped us put together our Bean Bag Toss game and all of the children played that for a really long time.
Christopher used our new foam puzzles to play school ... he was the teacher! We played all day Tuesday and I am exhausted today! Playing with three little children is pretty hard work actually ... I hope it doesn't sound like I am complaining ... I'm just stating facts. I'm SO thankful to have this time to spend with our grandchildren and absolutely would not trade it for doing anything else; but there is a reason we old folk are not primary caregivers ~ we're too old! :) 
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