A Beautiful Day

Today is a rare day for me. Noelle and Indy are simultaneously napping. I think this has happened 2 other times in the history of Indy's life. So what do I do? I check my email (for the first time in 4 days) and check out blogs.

Have you ever noticed that having children causes you to work so much more than the regular maintenance of child raising. For this reason I do not like to add "projects" to my day. By projects I am referring to crafty or other activities which take 5 minutes to set up, entertain the child for 4-6 minutes and require 10 minutes of clean up time. That's twice as much work for me than entertainment for my child, a bad ration if you're asking me. Well yesterday I decided to take a risk and do a "project" with Noelle. I got out the shaving cream and filled a cookie sheet with it. Noelle and I proceeded to play in the shaving cream. I heard that if you have your child draw circles and lines it is one of the most effective ways to introduce your child to writing. So Noelle and I drew circles and lines and it turns out that's pretty much all it takes to write Noelle's name. She got the N and o and l down, but the e was a little bit trickier. After she got tired of writing we just fooled around trying to make a shaving cream snowman, singing "Once there was a snowman" and squishing him flat at the end. Long story short, we both had so much fun. And guess what, it cleaned up in a zippy. So to all of you clean freak moms out there, try shaving cream, it's fun and wipes up easy.

This picture just makes me laugh. Doesn't he look happy? We took him to the doctor 2 weeks ago and he was 14 lbs-just look at that big Buddha belly.