Monday, February 1, 2010

A Messy Fun Day!

Today we changed our tunes!  It was a fun day, no crabiness and no yelling at all :)  So much better that way.  I had to clean up the kitchen and wanted to bake some stuff, so I gave Ingrid some stale cereal in a bowl, a wooden spoon, and a measuring cup.  She always has so much fun making a mess and eating it!


















Then we made cookies.  I had to let the butter soften, so I scooped everything out ahead of time and it looked so neat and organized.  I pretended I was on a cooking show when we finally made the cookies.  They turned out amazing--whole wheat flour, oatmeal, craisins, raisins, and chocolate chips.  I had a little left of everything so we just threw it all in.  I put lots of cinnamon and cloves and they taste pretty darn good. 












We've been talking about getting a twin bed for Ingrid, getting her out of the crib.  Not sure if we're ready for that but we talked about it.  I took the side of the crib off today and Ingrid climbed up, brought all her stuffed animals, and sat talking and singing all morning.  Forever!  It was great.  She looked so cute having all the stuffed animals talk to each other and making the penguin waddle. 






























We got some paintbrushes at Ikea yesterday.  Our friend Jami said her son did better with brushes than finger painting.  I think we can say Ingrid does better with them, too!  She went on for almost an hour painting by herself.  Fingerpainting had lasted ten minutes max.  Yay for cheap paintbrushes!








4 comments:

ringmaster said...

fun...i read your other post and that is so me! i am constantly yelling and then telling myself i need to find another way to get out my frustrations and to get my kids to listen to me!

MaryAnne said...

I'm definitely going to try out the play with stale cereal idea on my kids!

I need to try putting cloves in cookies. And my kids paint way better with brushes than fingers, too.

Glad you had a great day =)

danita said...

i love ikea--they have the best children's stuff! and cheap!

sunnymama said...

Ingrid obviously loves messy play and I love to read your messy play posts! Great pictures too. :)