Gelatin Insanity

I've been following notimeforflashcards.com for a couple of years now.  It's a great resource, and has hundreds of craft, art, and learning ideas that take only a few minutes to set up.  I was inspired once again to try one of the more ambitious ideas.  And, while I was going for broke, invited my friend and her three children over to participate, too.  I should mention, that in the http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2012/02/rainbow-gelatin-sensory-tub.html version, the Rainbow Gelatin Sensory tub looks really great.  It looks like it could get messy, but nothing I couldn't handle.  It was just so pretty.  So, I made my 6 trays of gelatin last night, and cut them to a size I thought would work and set them all in a tupperware box on the bathroom floor.  It was really fun.  It was a lot more mess than I thought, and it was interesting to see who liked it best.  The friend's kids are 5, 3, and 1.  My kids are 5, 3, and 1.  Her 5 year old and my 3 year old were the last men standing.  And by standing I mean the 5 year old was sitting in a pile of goo gelatin (of her own making) and my daughter was squatting in the tupperware, on the goo, in only underpants.  They obviously had a great time.  All of them did, however 3/4s of them could not resist the lure of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and blueberries.

I need to get messier.  Don't get me wrong, my house is pretty messy, but I feel like I am so tightly wound when it comes to making a mess that I could maybe justify as art....  They had such a great time with it.  I can't wait for the warmer, not rainy, weather so that we can go outside with paints and craziness again.

today was a very busy day, but w did have time to fit in our reading and some handwriting practice.  Bo is doing a great job!  He does start off the lesson looking only at the first letter of a 3 letter word and then just trying to guess the rest, but by the end, you can see the lightbulbs going off.

My quote of the day goes to my daughter, Zee.  In the bath, the two girls were fighting over the few plastic toys I let them have in there.  I heard her say: "You will only get what I am willing to give you."

Rage of the day: Coco, in the same bath as above, hurled a wet washcloth directly at my face and screamed "Nooooooo" when I told her it was time for her to get out.  She then screamed for my mother.

Most interesting: My son got to stay up while his sisters were "napping," and he wanted to play school.  He was the teacher, and I had to draw a planet I had imagined.  It was just like the old times, pre-sisters.  It was quiet, and he was kind, helpful, chatty, and sweet.