Keeping busy

I spent yesterday afternoon Googling around ideas to keep Miss M busy.  I found a website that has a lot of ideas. There are a lot of ideas for outdoor play so our options are a little more limited.  There are a few I am excited to try with her. It's a little more difficult to entertain Miss M because she doesn't like to get messy. She doesn't like stuff on her hands or her clothes.  For instance, as we were walking to the car she got some snow on her shoes and about had a panic attack. I brushed most of it off but when she got in the car she noticed it was on her shoes and her pants. She wouldn't stop talking about it until I wiped it all off.

So I knew that asking her to play with shaving cream was probably not going to go well.  We have a mirror to be hung on a door (which hasn't happened yet) so I thought that was the easiest place to play since we could get it dirty and it wouldn't need cleaned immediately! I squirted the shaving cream on the mirror and tried to get her to play with it. She wasn't really interested until I got out brushes for her avoid getting her hands dirty. She still wasn't really amused but she did enjoy drawing with dry erase markers on the mirror.

You can see her train tracks in the picture too. She's obsessed with her trains. She wakes up talking about them.  I am happy she has something that will entertain her while I am working in the kitchen but I almost twist my ankle on her train tracks daily.

I cooked her some pasta noodles and gave her excess spices/seasonings to pour into the bowl.  She enjoyed making her own spaghetti concoction. It smelled interesting considering she had all the seasonings we don't really use or we have excess of like celery seed and chives. 

We finally got out of the house and made our way to the library that we've heard so many people talk about and it was amazing.  I was shocked with the size of the kid's library section as it was an enormous library by itself. There were separate rooms for story times, a fish tank in the wall, a boat to play on, train tracks, puzzles, coloring station, kid chairs/couches everywhere and more. Miss M loved it. She was so happy just to run around. I made her go to the story time today. She did okay. She wasn't really impressed with the singing and book reading but maybe she'll learn to enjoy it the more we go.