This weekend I finally got around to doing some creative hands-on fun at home. Life has been so insane the past 3 weeks, that I have really been dragging in the afternoons. We play pretend games about hiding in bear caves and airplanes and garbage trucks and he gets his hands dirty helping me cook dinner most nights, but I haven't had the energy to pull out the paints or play-dough or do a fun project for a while. So on Friday I treated myself to a 30 minute, $5 field trip to the dollar store to pick up some fun. I filled my bag with mardi-gras beads, cotton balls, tiny shiny bows, colored shredded paper, and a new big bowl. I got home, cut up the necklaces, dumped, added a cardboard tube- and viola! a new sensory tub waiting for Jonathan to wake up from his nap.
He loved it. He immediately dumped it out on the table and began filling the tube, sorting the beads, and squishing the paper and cotton balls. It kept him fascinated and experimenting for a full hour!!
Just love that rapt concentration! And he kept asking to take it out again all weekend. He referred to it as "that surprise thing that Mommy made for me".
You're such a great mommy! I'm so proud of you!
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