one of the things i appreciate most is the easy access i now have to activity ideas for the wee toddlers that inhabit this space. i love children, i really do, but under the age of 2 i really don't know what to do with them. my boys have both taken a long (LONG) time to get past the "everything goes in my mouth" stage. tesla's just now able to color and play playdough and do tactile/sensory activities like texture soup. (looking at that and picturing desmond makes me cringe. paperclips? coins? dry pasta? beads? MARBLES? there's no way in heck i could bring that stuff out around him. he's just recently gotten over the need to chew on diapers.)
unfortunately, the depression thing has made it hard to do anything above the bare minimum. most days have just been a countdown to bedtime, and i haven't been able to shake the fog enough to really do anything. the paxil didn't help. it sort of numbed my feelings and i stabilized at about a 4, which isn't bad, but not great motivationally either. plus the constant exhaustion it brought on meant 2-hour naps every day, which cut into my "doing stuff" time.
did you guys ever "clean" your desks with shaving cream in elementary school? i remember doing it a few times and we LOVED it. who doesn't like to squish shaving cream in their fists? some of my teachers would have us write spelling words or math problems in the shaving cream. somehow it upped the fun factor by about a million percent.
so we tried the shaving cream + food coloring idea i saw on pinterest. needless to say, the boys loved it. (and they only ate a little of it.)
tesla's been asking to do it again. like every few minutes.
notice how mundo has a double crease on his bum cheeks? bahaha
body art.
we've also done some bowling with toilet paper rolls. (i didn't realize how much tp we went through until i started collecting the rolls. insane. sorry, planet.)
silas is busy 99% of the time. when he's not studying, he's running, biking, or playing intramural soccer with the podiatry team, Victorious Secret. here is a dashing picture of him.
it's a pretty accurate representation, i'd say. compare.
i also made a goal to join a gym.
haven't gotten around to that yet.
Ha! Heather, you have the greatest sense of humor on planet earth. Reading your blogs always make me smile :)
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ReplyDeletethanks, ladies. :)
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