Kid Day!

My goal today was to only do stuff with the boys. These two are seriously best friends! Here's our day in pictures...

While I was making play-doh (a recipe that actually works!!)

the boys were playing in beans

Watching the dogs run around outside

It's ready!

Play-doh with cookie cutters and toothpicks

Ian wasn't impressed. He ate crackers.

Oliver was far more impressed and making starfish

Once Ian sat on my lap, he really developed interest and began mixing colors. And tasting it. And rolling it on his cheek. And more tasting.

This started as a birthday cake, then turned into a toothpick monster

I think he got into it!

Are they dancing? Hugging? Nope. Wrestling! (Tackling...well, Oliver calls it "football" because Nich has taught him the art of tackle football)

Oliver wanted to be superman, and loves matching Ian, so they became super heroes.

Hide and seek

More "football"

Sunshine!

Snack time! Pudding to be exact

Nap time on the couch with a Daisy dog

Then we went for a nature walk (it warmed up and was a beautiful day)

We found "treasures"

Oliver's artwork made from the things we found. I like how he arranged the rock in a pathway. I don't know if that's what he had in mind, but it's cool to me none the less!

 Kid favorite: Spaghetti and meatballs for dinner

And how much fun can you have with a bowl?

 LOTS!

Bath time. Or splash time here

In pajamas and these two found a new favorite way to bounce on the trampoline. Ian on his belly with Oliver straddling him, and periodically sitting on him. They crack themselves up. Ok, and me and Nich too.

And books before bedtime!

Ian seriously reads like this often, and I have tons of video of him reading aloud. His new favorite things to say are animal sounds, (today's being a word that sounds an awful lot like "snake" and "Ssssssssssssssss") and every book he reads contains chickens, roosters, ducks, and now snakes. Even this one - "Green Eggs and Ham"

That Play-Doh recipe for anyone interested:

1/2 cup flour

1/4 cup salt

1/2 cup water

1/2 Tablespoon oil

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

food coloring

Mix all but the food coloring in a saucepan and cook on very low heat, stirring continuously, until it (suddenly) turns into dough. Knead dough, then divide into balls. Add food coloring and knead.
 I doubled the recipe today.

We had a fun day! It was a nice change from the norm, and I knew Oliver was really needing a day to let loose after all the days of being sick, and then me trying to catch up for all the days spent quarantined with the lovely hand foot mouth disease they contracted. And so tomorrow we'll go back to the norm, but it's always nice to have a day just for kids!