Tot School

I hadn't planned it out in any kind of detail. So as the kids played and dressed and made their beds upstairs, I pulled together a few activities that I thought Maddie might be interested in.  A shake-the-plastic-easter-egg-and-guess-what's-inside game; a set of objects from which one would disappear and she'd have to figure out what was missing; and a game that we later called "delivery" in which Maddie had to transfer 12 of those plastic easter eggs from a basket to an empty egg carton using a pair of tongs.  (It got it's name because after carefully filling the egg carton, she went to deliver it and I "tripped" her, causing her eggs to crash to the floor and "break" and her to giggle uncontrollably as we tried to clean up the "mess" without touching the eggs with our hands (spoons and tongs were involved!).)  Maddie and I spent about half an hour together while Angie played computer games, enjoying each other and doing things that we normally wouldn't do.  It's hard to get that one-on-one time with your little one when most of your attention is focused on teaching the big one.  But I think Tot School just might help us out!