Meet Incredi-Emit & Incredi-Joss!!
Like I said the other day... we are big into Superheroes around here now! I've got to get some full costumes together for them because I know they would love them.
My sweet kitchen helper :)
He loves to help me rinse the dishes, and does a really good job too.
They love making and playing with playdough. Just for fun I thought I'd share my favorite homemade recipe for playdough. It lasts forever, smells good and is totally safe if they decide to nibble on it a little.
We always use the following recipe:
-1 packet of kool aid (color and flavor of choice-unsweetened)
-1 1/4 cups of flour
-1/4 cup of salt
-1 cup of boiling water
-1 TBS of vegetable oil
*Mix everything together with a spoon then knead with the dough is workable. Slowly sprinkle flour until you get the right consistency to play with. Store in an airtight container and it will last forever! You can easily double, triple, quadruple it to your heart's content!
It always smells really good too :) They love to use my garlic press, cookie scoop, kitchen mallet, 'their knives' (plastic kids ones), jumbo straws, rolling pins, cookie cutters and cutting board. When they say they want to play with it, they'll run to the drawers and gather all of that stuff every time. We can't leave any of it out. Tonight we were playing with it again and Emit asked me where the rectangle thing was to put the playdough on (the cutting board). They like things 'Just Right!' :)
I saw a little dice game idea for the boys on Pinterest and we took it and ran with it and made our own with what we had. Of course the one I saw had everything cut nicely out with a Cricut or some kind of cute machine like that and done all fancy, but these guys have loved this game and ask to play it almost every day.
The pictures turned out really blurry, but if you look closely above, we are using like McQueen cars this time for the game. We change the toys that we play it with, but they like these little cars the best. It is amazing how far they have come with their sportmanship skills just since we started playing this little game.
Granted, we have a long way to go with those skills, but coming from a gal that played sports all throughout her life...sportmanship is something my kids will have. I really do not like seeing kids with poor attitudes when they play games, whether it be Red Rover, Red Rover or Freeze Tag, or Hungry Hippos. They need that foundation for sure, and for this lesson I am so thankful for my background in sports!
We have construction going on nearby, remember the big dump truck that the boys drool over? They are totally fascinated with the little forklift that frequents our little street too. It always has to drive up and down separately because of the steep slope on the driveway. If the boys are out there, the guys are so nice to let them jump on for a little ride a few hundred feet down the lane :) I never have my camera ready in time though. I barely caught this ride.
"I've got crabs, that's what we're gonna call it" (okay so maybe that's not the exact Dumb & Dumber quote, but you get the gist.
The boys next door brought a slew of hermit crabs back from the beach one day and brought about 5 crabs for each boy to have as 'his' crabs for the day. I don't really know enough about crabs to know how long they live and what they need to survive, but I have a feeling I need to learn because the boys were very sad when we set these crabs free.
They had so much fun playing with them, racing them around the house, taking them for train rides...the fun was unlimited!
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