A Lego Day

Today was our second snow day of the week for the kids. Combine that with Olivia's illness earlier this week, and what you get is a very long week for momma, who is coming down with a strong case of cabin fever. I have had to be quite creative trying to find things to occupy the kiddos. We've done Play-Doh, Moon Sand, baked cookies, had quite a few tea parties...I even tried to put a fun spin on cleaning - "Come on, kids, how fast can you wipe down all the walls???" No takers on that one - they're getting too savvy for me.

So today we had a "Lego Party". Noah's fascination with TinkerToys has morphed into an obsession with Legos, which he received quite a lot of for Christmas and his birthday.


I am usually quite useless when it comes to building cool things with Legos, claiming that Daddy is much better at it (which he is), but this time I can proudly say that I actually put some time and thought into the whole process and put together quite a fine two-story house complete with kitchen, living room, dining room, two bedrooms and a bathroom.
Had to get a close-up since this doesn't happen too often. :)
Eventually the Legos became money, and Noah became the shopkeeper who charged Olivia money just for entering and leaving his store. I'm thinking we got a fine math lesson in today with all the counting she had to do to pay his high fees!