We ran some errands in the morning.
Then spent the rest of the afternoon playing outside.
“Mother, I said NO MORE PICTURES.”
Adam and Luke pretended to be firefighters. They drew chalk flames on the driveway and then put them out with their “water canons”. I love their imaginations.
Let’s talk about Luke and his geography for a minute. Not only can he correctly put all 50 states on the map, but he can place the countries in North America.
And South America.
And Africa.
Seriously, all 54 countries in Africa. This kid amazes me.
So when I saw this US map fabric online, I knew I had to get it and make a quilt for Luke. When we went to the store, he saw the world map fabric and asked me if he could have “a all the countries blanket AND a all the states-es blanket”.
It took me a lot longer than it should have to finish – thanks to my imprecise sewing, cutting, or measuring skills (though really, it was probably (D) all of the above). I spent at least 5 hours bonding with my seam ripper.
This quilt was made with lots of love, and a handful of curse words.
Luke fell asleep on the couch last night. So when I finally finished it, I covered him up with it.
I came downstairs this morning and found he’d spread the quilt out on the floor and was pointing out countries. When he saw me he excitedly said, “Mommy! Look what you made!”
It was the best reaction I could have asked for.
We got a yummy gift of food in the mail yesterday from some very generous friends. Once our goodies were stowed away in the freezer, I let Adam play with the dry ice they had been packed in. Luke and Maggie were napping, but at Adam’s insistence, we saved a chunk for Luke to see when he woke.
Adam thought it was pretty cool (pun intended) and I overheard him pretending to be an evil wizard.
When Maggie and Luke woke up, we decided to take advantage of the nice weather and go to the playground.
This was another new one to us and had a crazy long slide. Luke learned a valuable lesson about why we don’t walk up slides when other kids might be on their way down (at least, I’d like to think he learned a valuable lesson, but since I had to stop him from doing it again just a few minutes later, it probably didn’t stick).
Once we got back home, Adam showed Luke the dry ice.
I loved hearing the two of them laugh and cast spells.