Indoor Activities

It's 4 A.M. right now and I can't sleep!  I was a little worried about the baby last night because I hadn't felt him move a lot yesterday, so now I'm drinking some water and hoping to feel him jump around in there.  And I figured that I would make good use of this time by doing a blog post.  :)

Does anyone else feel like time is just flying by?  I cannot believe it is the middle of February already.  Where did December and January go?  I feel like December didn't even happen this year.  Or January, either, for that matter!  I'm secretly a little glad, though, because I'm ready for the baby to be born and for spring/summer to be here.  We've had a little taste of spring lately (yesterday the high was 60!) and it has made me crave warmer weather.  Unfortunately, we're supposed to get hit with a massive cold front this week and maybe even some snow.  Yuck!

Mixed in with the spring-like days we've also had a bunch of really chilly days, so we've still be inside a lot.  I've tried to do a few "art" projects with the boys, but soon found out that their enjoyment of the project lasts about 10 minutes... and then they're done.  Like with these cotton ball snowmen I had them make... I thought they would love dipping the cotton in the glue and putting it on the paper, but they really had nothing for it after a few minutes.  And E hated the glue and cotton sticking to his fingers!

So we're sticking now to really easy things like window decals.  They've loved these Valentine decals, although the cupids have been now been dismembered and half of the hearts are on the nearby chalkboard.

The boys have really been into puzzles lately.  Jackson can put a bunch of his puzzles together on his own now, which is so nice!  And Emmett loves to sit next to Jackson and put non-matching pieces together by brute force.  Whatever keeps him happy!

Emmett also loves helping me unload the dishwasher.  The other day he unloaded all of the silverware by himself!  Of course, the drawer looked like this when he was done, but still!  What a good little helper.

This is the type of indoor activity the boys are really into... jumping on the bed and being thrown onto the bed by Daddy.  Phil and I just got a new king bed yesterday.  Our old queen was on the floor for a day or two after Phil took the bed frame apart and the boys thought that was the greatest thing.  They LOVE to be thrown like this onto the couch or the bed.  It makes me nervous, though! (Please excuse the bare spot on the wall where we didn't paint behind the headboard!)