Stayin' Busy

With four straight days trapped inside this past week from an ice/snow storm, we had to get pretty creative in keeping ourselves busy.  Jack actually did better than I thought he would... it was MY sanity that came into question towards the end.

Things started off on Tuesday with a little "craft" project.  I don't necessarily think of myself as being crafty, but every now and then I get a wild hair.  I saw this wreath idea on a friend's facebook page and thought it was too cute.  I had actually been looking for something cute and Valentine's-y-ish for the front door, but hadn't found anything that caught my eye.  So, I found these directions online and decided to make one for myself.  I was actually pretty pleased with the outcome - even though it took me ALL DAY!!  Seriously... I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless you're snowed in and have nothing better to do.

And, here's a sampling of some of our other activities from the week.  

Jack discovered graham crackers and LOVES them.  He has about 8 words right now and "cracker" is one of them!!  It's his first two-syllable word (proud Momma moment!)

He's really into hats right now, so we played lots of passing the hat back and forth.

More playtime with hats.  If he even sees a hat, he starts saying "hhhhhaaaaaa..."  It's really like an exaggerated sigh with really wide eyes and flapping arms.  Too funny.  I'll try to get a video of it.  

And... he's figured out that he can smile.  Except this is it (see picture below).  I had just asked him to "smile" when I got this pose.  I couldn't believe it so I asked him to do it again.

This is what I got the second time...

And one more time just to make sure it wasn't a fluke.  Nope.  That's his smile for right now.  Let's hope he realizes that you don't always have to crinkle up your nose to smile at someone.  Although it's pretty cute, don't ya think?

And, playing with his toys wasn't quite good enough.  So, he climbed into the toy tub.  He was perfectly happy in there for quite a while.

And here he is on a different day giving me a "smile."  hahaha

This was the fourth day of being trapped inside (that's our street somewhere underneath all that snow).  We didn't get out and play in it, which stunk because it would have been pretty fun I'm sure.  But, the temperatures were in the teens and my better judgement told me it would be crazy to take a 13 month old into the snow.  Booooo...

Jack tried on his first pair of boots and wasn't even able to stand.  But, he loves to play in my closet, so I'm sure it won't be long before he has on lots of my shoes ;)

And, last but not least, Jack learned to "fingerpaint" with yogurt.  He wasn't really sure what to do at first, but it didn't take long for him to figure it out.

I'm glad the sun is shining today and that we're able to get out.  We were beginning to run out of ideas...