Hey there! I've been on a facebook 'break' for almost 3 weeks now. I honestly never thought I'd make it that long. It was stressing me out in far too many ways and I realized I just needed to take a step back. I am missing sharing pictures of my sweet boy though and I know a few family members who are missing them too. :) So I'm just jumping in and doing this. I don't have the perfect blog name or design, but that's ok! My need for everything to be 'perfect' often times prevents me from even trying so..here we go!
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Little guy is SO active these days. I really feel like I need to make some sort of 'lesson plans' for our days. We usually fly by the seat of our pants. This particular morning I decided to make up a batch of playdough. I made some for him probably 5 months ago. At that time, he wasn't really into it. I thought I'd give it another try!
The recipe I used had me mix it in our mixer. I didn't care for this recipe at all! It wasn't setting right, so I switched to the pan and gave Sam the mixer bowl to play with while I finished up. There were a few specks left in there and sure enough my little piglet started eating the playdough. I figured he'd take a bite, realize it tasted awful and spit it back out. It was basically salt and flour. But oh no...he snacked on quite a few bites. He even put the bowl down at one point, walked over to his water cup to take a swig and went right back to the bowl for a few more bites! haha
Once I got the color mixed in (red and green for Christmas of course!) we got to playing. I gave him a few pieces of a straw, biscuit cutters and a christmas tree cookie cutter. After showing him how he could play, he went right to town.
Then he realized how squishy it was and squished for a while.
Please note the crumbs from his 'snack' earlier. ha!
This is fun, mama!
Then he started to pull it apart. Bit by bit. He did this over and over as I gave him hunks of the dough. Definitely his favorite part of the play. He loved to throw the bits across the kitchen. :)
With his pile of 'bits'
So focused
This is when he attacked me. "Mom...look at this playdough!"
Knocked me on my back!
We had a lot of fun! If you're looking for a good play dough recipe, we really like this one from How Does She.
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