We've been cooped up and tried to stay busy and active inside, but for goodness sakes it's May! Looks like Danika's not too excited about this particular rainy day...although she did love holding the umbrella and sportin' her rain jacket!
While we have been held up in the house the last month (with the exception of a few nice days here and there) we (meaning mostly Danika) got creative with the same ol' boring play things...
She spent nearly an hour and a half one day organizing, setting up, and having a tea party on our bed with all of her dolls and stuffed animals. This picture was taken only half way through set up:)
We also had to have the occasional bribery treat for continuing to share and play kind with Haddie in their cramped space together...
Danika even did a nice job sharing that special treat with her lil sis
and of course had to help wipe her mouth when she was done:)
This smile is a big "thank you!"
When the weather did finally cooperate last weekend and a bit today, we took advantage of it and got outdoors. I got a bunch of flowers planted (which then of course had to be brought into the house when the blizzard arrived! Who knew to expect that for May?!?)
Danika wanted to be dad's big helper too with all of his outside job's
(Two peas-in-a-pod sitting their chairs in the garage)
Bubble Time!
Because of the ridiculous weather we've been having, Daren has been super delayed at work with planting (delayed as in, not at all yet started!) We took once last opportunity to have a family night before he's on the road late and overnights starting this week until who knows when...
We decided on a movie/popcorn night...
Ready for the big show!
We got our sleeping bags out and even Sophie enjoyed it:)
Danika had a blast and even stayed interested for the whole movie, which was impressive for a 3 year old at all, but especially because the movie wasn't her 1st choice. She has really been asking to watch The Lion King, but all of my movies from when I was a kid are on VHS and all we have is a DVD player. No Redbox had it when we went to Target to get it, all they had left was the blue-ray version... (and I wasn't sure she could handle the scary parts anyway) She could NOT decide on another movie. Of course, she spotted the Dora collection, but much to her disappointment I squashed that idea. I know, mean mom! 1.) because she already has about 8 Dora movies, and 2.) because we wanted more of something we would all enjoy. We tried to talk about how Dora is more of a short show and we wanted a movie for the whole family. I settled on a classic, Charlotte's Web and thought she would enjoy it. I tried to tell her all about the farm animals and she was not convinced she'd like it...eventually, mom won the battle and talked her into it after elaborating on a few more details (the good ones of course, not the sad parts) Long story short...she loved it!
Another fun part of our weekend was going to the Mall of America- The girls would probably say shoe shopping was not so much fun, but in the end the waiting was worth it because Danika got to go on 2 rides....of course she picked the Merry-go-round. For her second choice, this was a little trickier. At 1st she said the roller coaster (as in, the one that goes upside down about 6 times!) when I told her she was too little she was a little disappointed, but quickly got over it and chose the Diego bus ride that was also kind of like a mini coaster:)
One last glimpse that we are out of hibernation....
Remember that tiny planter I created back in March?!?! Well, the good folks at Down to Earth took extra good care of it and it is growing like CRAZY! This thing is wild- I probably would have done a little different mix of flowers, had I realized how wild they were going to get:)
Happy Spring (Finally!)
Love,
The Dummers
