Fun 2 ways

Fun on the Best Buy shelves.

Fun in the reeds by the creek in the park.

Easter 2019

The boy posing with his two current favorite cars in front of the macarons I made for dessert.  The large green ones were filled with watermelon buttercream, and the small pink ones are filled with buttercream I flavored with peach juice I boiled down to a syrup.  

On Sunday morning, we did a one kid egg hunt.  He had a blast.

See the new green Crocs?  A gift from Andrew's brother and sister-in-law.  He instantly loved them.

We mixed together chicken eggs and plastic eggs and some toys that would have gone into the basket.

It was a very sunny bright morning.

Look at all the lovely flowers that have come up with all the moisture we've gotten lately.

Look at my potato plants!!!  By far the biggest thing I've grown this year so far, though not even close to the first thing I planted.

Two in one

I sewed up a long piece of knit fabric to make a circle.  The idea was it could be a way to get that pull/stretch/pressure thing he seems to need.  I was hoping it would save me a few concussions.  I was imagining tug of war type thing.  This is what we got.

A couple randoms

I got called to be assistant leader of the Webelos.  I came home from a weekly den meeting and the boy wanted to wear my shirt and kerchief.

He loves playdough.  It gets allover sometimes, so usually we play with it on the kitchen floor, but this day, he set up a play area on the end table and dragged over one of his stools.  He played happily mostly alone for at least 45 minutes.

Train museum

For the first time in a long time, we had a weekend that didn't involve chores or snow, so we decided to have some fun.  We went to see trains.

In Golden, there is a train museum with lots of old trains mostly to enjoy from the outside.  There was a couple toy train tables set up inside of one car for kids to play with.  Naturally, we spent some time there.

We rode on a "galloping goose" train they used to run down in southern Colorado.  It has a gasoline truck engine.  The "engineers" took a quick break to eat lunch, so I gave the boy box of raisins explaining that the guy was having a snack and would be right back.  The boy popped a raisin, and said "I'm having a snack, too."  A 5 word sentence!  Milestones!!

And we got to ring a bell.

Swing swing swing

After a long 2.5 hours at pre school, sometimes you just have to blow off steam.  We often play at the school playground afterwards when the weather is nice.  The weather has been nice enough that the snow has retreated back to a few soggy patches or giant mountains ahead of the latest blizzard.  Surprisingly, most of the kids at his school left right after the bell, but our boy wanted to linger on.  And why not?  He fortunately brought a friend to push on the swing.

Hot Lava!

We had a birthday party at a fancy indoor play ground last weekend.  The boy was at first over whelmed by the choices of what to do.  And then, as the place filled up, was overwhelmed by all the kids running around.  But he found his groove once we figured out how to shoot the foam ball gun.

And then there was this dystopian nightmare.