“I just want to be my regular old self”
A quote from big-sis. We’ve been sick for the last two weeks here. First the kids, then the parents, now even the grandparents have the scourge…which has meant that the two very energetic girls have had little to do but play with each other. Little-sis wants to play mermaids constantly and I think big-sis has had enough.
We’ve also been hit hard around here by all the recalls. The funny thing is for big-sis’ birthday this year all the moms called to see what to get her. Everyone was wondering what to do because of all the lead recalls. So, she got lots of arts and craft stuff, including Aquadots. So the husband and I had a fun night crawling around on all fours making sure we had them all up. The girls aren’t likely to swallow anything, but we have two infant cousins that will be here in the next few weeks and we’d rather not have anyone in the hospital. It’s gotten really hard to find stuff you can trust for kids toys. Because of that we’re trying to do mostly books/homemade for gifts this year.
The girl’s four year old cousin is so upset she actually learned to spell C-H-I-N-A and if she sees it tosses anything and everything with it on the bottom. Fortunately here the girls haven’t freaked quite that much, but little-sis refuses to watch any Dora after we had to toss a bunch of Dora stuff. Dora the Explorer is dead to us.
A few days ago I posted a link to the how-to for the family memory game I made the girls last spring. Caryn asked for directions of how to play, so here goes.
- Shuffle the cards
- Lay all the cards face down in a big grid
- Taking turns each person flips over two cards. If they match they keep the pair. If not they put the cards back in the original position.
- The next person takes their turn.
- When all the cards are picked up the person with the most pairs wins.
Variation: You can also let a person keep flipping over cards as long as they are finding pairs. I find with the little kids they do not like this as much.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:56 am
I’ve been thankful that my daughter is old enough not to be playing with toys now. It must be a big pain.