Rainy Day Projects

It has been rainy and cool outside for the last couple of days, so we're feeling a little stir crazy. We've already gone out to lunch and taken the boys to the indoor play area at the mall. Now that we've resigned ourselves to being inside, everyone seems to have a project.

Dan has been drawing. He used this grid format to create a portrait of Winston Churchill in college, but this is his first attempt since.

Jack has been working pretty hard on crawling. So far he only makes it backwards or tothe side. He was getting pretty frustrated since his efforts were taking him away from his toys when Dan came along to distract him.

He has also been spending a lot of time with this blanket. I give it to him when I lay him in his crib, and he immediately wraps it up and over his head. When he wakes up, he just happily kicks his legs and chews on it until I come get him.

Jack has been enjoying sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and rice cereal. Peas are not eliciting quite the strong gagging response that they did initially, but they are certainly not a favorite. =)

I've been making baby food. Here is the latest attempt at peas....maybe he'll like them disguised as "peas and carrots!" My projects usually involve some for of organization, and I've been pretty excited at this latest system.

Calvin had quite a surprise in store for us yesterday when we opened the door to rescue him from his nap. At one point during we actually thought he was sleeping (novel idea!) since he was quiet. Instead, I'm pretty sure he was working very hard on this.

If the books made their way onto his bed in the way he returned them to the bookcase (one or two at a time), he used a good chunk of his 2 hours for this project.

Cal has also been making good work out of this clock. He loves putting the shapes in, taking them out, stacking the blocks, grouping the blocks.

Though he enjoys saying "red" and "blue" to the shapes that apply, this star seems to be the favorite. It was lost last night and magically appeared today. We asked Cal where it was, and he said "bus." Only his favorite things get to take a ride in the bus......the doggie, and now apparently the star.

Dan's been off all week for his vacation week, and it has been great for all of us. We have had a lot of down time together. This is pretty much what meals have looked like this week.

Calvin has been asking for Dan's hand and then holding it while we eat. Pretty sweet. A couple nights ago when we were putting Calvin to bed, he laid his head down and said, "Dada.....home." Usually the inflection is a question, indicating that he wants daddy to come home. This time it was just a sweet fact. We all feel that way.