Weekend Activities

It was a cool and rainy morning in our neck of the woods, so the day started out with some indoor fun.  Madeleine decided to decorate the downstairs play room and set up a "Holiday Party," with activities representing various major holidays.

The Halloween station was full of Madeleine-made masks, and our job was to put them on and try and scare each other.  Since it's already easy for Madeleine's art to scare me, it wasn't a big stretch to find the masks a little creepy.  Here is the artist herself modeling her craft:

Amazing, right?

The Thanksgiving station was filled with piles of teeny-tiny pieces of a 1000+ piece puzzle.  Ethan and I each successfully managed to link one piece to another before giving up.  The box cover tells me that when completed, the puzzle will be a picture of some turkeys surrounded by autumn leaves.  Nothing that I manged to connect looked remotely turkey-like, though.

The Christmas station was the best.  I think Madeleine kind of forgot to include Christmas in her holiday party and then half-a$$ed it when she remembered.  If a party guest wanted to get in the Christmas spirit, all he or she had to do was sit in the "cozy place" because Christmas is a time when people are cozy.  To make the "cozy place," Madeleine simply fluffed one of the pillows on the end of the play-room couch and declared it fit to go.  I sat in the cozy place and sang a few Christmas carols to really get myself in the mood.

The Valentine and Easter stations were combined, because as far as kids are concerned, both holidays revolve around candy.  And, in a kill-two-birds-with-one-stone scenario, Madeleine was able to get rid of some of her leftover Valentine AND Easter candy by having it out at that station.  It was basically an excuse for both kids to eat taffy and MnMs in the middle of the day for no reason.  I had to actually cut Julia off because she would have just eaten all the candy that was there.


Luckily, the sun came out in the afternoon, so we were able to take a trip to the pool and to a nearby playground.  The kids seemed ready to expend some energy after being indoors; both girls opted to perform chin-ups at the playground upon our first arriving.  I took a video of chin-up set number ten million:




Seriously impressive girls.  I have never in my life been able to do a chin-up.  I guess all that candy at the Holiday Party fueled their body with sugar they needed to burn!