…and I’m still trying to decide if I’m crazy enough to take both girls to the Library to watch Bee Movie at 2:30. I have fond memories of going to the library to watch Disney movies as a kid…sitting on carpet squares and eating popcorn from a brown paper bag. I’m just not sure if Madeline will sit still for even 2 minutes. I’d hate to leave early because she was everywhere, because I know Claire will love it.
Hmm. Maybe I’ll go rent the movie and we’ll have Library day at home. Or maybe that’s the cop out.
I decided this morning that we are going to participate in the Great Sunflower Project. I think Claire will get a kick out if it and it’s free. Sunflowers would look just lovely in our garden. So far the garden has 4 tomato plants, the sage from last year, basil, the out of control mint and 6 broccoli plants. Our cucumbers died for some reason, so I need to get some new plants. I think also we’re going to do a salad garden, now that we have a rabbit and chipmunk killer in Spots, er Tom Tom the cat across the street.
The other neat thing that we have going on is that we now have a lawn tractor for our big lawn. Yay. My older brother Rob has horrible arthritis, and has had 2 hip replacements (he turns 40 this year) so he can no longermow his own grass. As a result, we are the proud owners of his Lawn Boy. It didn’t work after sitting for 2 years.,so Jonathan and one of my other brothers Joe did a Mr. Wizard on it. A couple ebay purchases later of spare parts, it is as good as new. Hooray. Now it will take about 30 minutes to mow our lawn instead of 2 hours, and I can do it now…well after taking 3 Allegra.
Also, hey organized moms (ahem Emily D & Jen), I need to find a better way to store all Claire’s art stuff so it’s easily accessible and so she doesn’t need to rely on me every time she wants to color/glue/whatever. I just want her to be able to get it out and put it away herself. I have a rolling cart thingie with everything in it, but it’s in the basement and kind of a hassle to bring up and down the stairs when she wants to do art. A lot of the stuff in that cart isn’t appropriate for her projects…its more scrapbooking stuff that I’ve never used and the like. Oh, and it has to be Madeline proof and as cheap as possible. 
Any ideas?
Tuesday, 3. June 2008
The roller cart thingie - can Mads reach all the drawers? I realize that you want to maybe keep that downstairs but while you are home with the girls and you want Claire to have her independence in doing projects, you might want to keep it in the backroom where her artwork is hanging. What about plastic bins? with lids - I don’t know if Mads would be able to get into some of them. We also use those plastic totes - maybe you could make one for Mads and one for Claire. Put Claire’s where she can reach it, make sure Mads knows which one is hers only (don’t know if she will really listen either though
) GL
Tuesday, 3. June 2008
We have a ton of little plastic bins. For crafty supplies, I keep them in the small, shoebox size, bins. I keep them on the floor of the closet nearest to where she does projects. I figure this will still work for us when Luke becomes mobile. It should be a while before he can open the closet door on his own (I hope).