The bubble blowing was fun, but we weren't too thrilled with the prints, so Sylvie swapped her straw for a paint brush and used her soapy tempera paints as water colors.
We also played the game Cootie a few times, built train tracks and played with play dough.
Then Sylvie told me that she wanted to make the coffee filter snowman project that we made a few weeks ago. Last time we made it, I sat with Sylvie and we properly applied eyes, nose, arms, hat and a straight line of buttons down then center. This time, I set out all of the supplies for her and busied myself with house stuff. When I came back to check on her, she had applied 3 sets of googly eyes, arms horizontally above and below the eyes, nose right in the middle, a hat coming out of the snowman's side and buttons everywhere. She showed it to me proudly and with a big smile said, "Look Mama! I gave him cheeks!" It was a fabulous reminder to me that these kind of projects are about teaching Sylvie to express herself, not about teaching her the exact placement of eyeballs. Plus, I like the one she made all by herself better anyway.
That sums up our day until noon. Is is any wonder that Sylvie sat down at lunch and declared, "This is SUCH A GREAT DAY."
It has been a great day, but I'm looking down the road to Rainy Days 2-6 and wondering if those will still be great days or stir-crazy nightmares. Here are a few ideas I have on my radar screen. Hope they help some of you other mamas.
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