Rainy Days

Rainy days make me feel lazy...like I don't want to get out of my warm bed. But, children need to be fed and ferried to school and the floor isn't going to vacuum itself (more's the pity). Coping with being cooped up requires some serious creativity, which is why children are so great - they have loads. Grace found a treasure and we killed quite a bit of time doing this...


What's not to love about jumping on bubble wrap? It involves jumping and popping noises which are, when combined, very satisfying.

Next we played hide-and-go-seek, which basically involves me counting, the kids hiding in the same obvious place every time, me elaborately acting surprised at finding them in said same hiding place, and the kids screaming in laughter. It's good for the soul.

Then Grace and Grant decided that Merritt's dinosaurs were dirty and needed a bath in the sink. I stayed out of that activity, except to clean up the mess at the end (and peel off about twenty soggy layers from the toilet paper roll).

By this time school was out, so we picked up Merritt. He wanted us (meaning he and I) to play Duel Monsters. I have only myself to blame that he likes Yu-gi-oh! I mean, I used to watch it a couple of years ago...yes, I watch cartoons. Don't you? I actually think that a large part of my fascination with the show was the outrageous hair-dos. It seems to be an actual requirement for the characters. Case in point:That's Yu-gi, Joey, and Kiaba. I couldn't begin to explain why Yu-gi has three colors of hair or how one would get lightning strike thingies going on in one's do. That is some serious bedhead.

Anyhoo, our Duel Monsters game consists of drawing monsters on doodle boards...so much cheaper than buying cards! I was doing pretty well (by well I mean I actually was remembering some of the monster's names without being prompted by Merritt), but then Grace wanted in on the action. She created the fearsome monster "Sun Angry Legs" which apparently eats grandparents. She made one of them (a cranky looking sun with long rays) and then decided that it needed a family, so she drew some more. I laid down and laughed while Merritt stalked off in disgust, his grand schemes momentarily derailed. It was a good sort of rainy day yesterday...I was highly entertained.