I have a dilemma. Ivan takes about two naps a day. He wakes up from his morning nap right about the time Lincoln goes down for his nap, and goes down for his second nap right about the time Linc wakes up. This gives us about a 5 hour stretch where we have to stay inside each day. Sometimes Lincoln and I get cabin fever. Especially because he likes being outside to much. Some of my solutions to this include, opening our front door and letting Linc play with the sidewalk chalk, and letting him ride his bike back and forth between the two stair cases. These seem to work for a little while. But today we tried something different, and he LOVED it. And it was so simple. I filled up an empty ice cream bucket with water and set it outside. He splashed in it, dropped rocks in it, dipped his head in it, put various toys in it to see if they would float, take the old formula scoops he collects and scoop the water out into a bowl and back again, and then he'd dump it out and say "mate riyur (make river)" and then ask me for "mo wayur (more water)" and he played like that for about two hours.
We have a drain right outside our front door, and it does drain, just slowly, so it created a nice lake for Linc to play in as well. And every day for the last couple days he's brought me the ice cream bucket and asked to play outside with the water. Such cheap entertainment. It's wonderful!
Oh, and "nice!" is an expression he's picked up from being around my brothers. I think it's funny.
1 comment:
That's a super idea - now all I need is a little confined area that isn't a blazing 115 degrees. It takes a very creative person to find something so simple for a child to do!
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