Legos and Lessons

October 28th, 2013

Thank you, God, for Legos.  My head still hurts from yesterday's drama.  Christian has been a real handful lately and had all I could handle.  I couldn't take it for one more day {especially with this headache}.  Thankfully, Chris went out and got Christian some new Legos {ours are in one of the boxes stacked in my parent's basement}.  We have a new child.

This morning, instead of throwing a tantrum, he got up out of bed, ran to his Legos, and played with them for hours.  I had to force food and drink down his throat and pull him away from them {no meltdown} to head out to get things done.  He's my happy boy again.  They seem to be the only toy we have found to challenge and engage him physically, creatively, and mentally.  After days of tantrums and timeouts, I think he just missed his Legos.

On with our fun, happy, tantrum free day...

There is so much to do when you walk outside, it actually makes it hard to get things done!  I had a number of things to do this morning, but we kept getting sidetracked along our way.  We started our day by heading to the Museum of Science to get our membership.  Along the way, I spotted a giant shopping area.  We had to stroll through and check it out!  We ended up spending the entire morning there and never getting to the Museum, a block away.  The kids had a blast riding the elevators and playing in the toy store while mommy enjoyed browsing through some shops and stocking up on cold weather clothes.  I stopped into a couple of phone repair stores to try to get my phone fixed, check that off the list.  Might not have been very productive, but it was a fun {tantrum free!} morning. 

I couldn't help but get this hat for Christian.  My Boston boy!  

Looking up to find the Halloween decorations on our apartment window.

I totally gave up on Lindalee's potty skills with the move.  Despise my lack of effort, she has made it known that she needs to use the potty.  It's nice she can finally tell us when she needs to go.  She especially likes the set up of having her potty with all her books.  What a big girl!

She picked out her outfit of fancy shoes, cute undies, and no pants {seems to be a common theme in the Baker household}.  She loves looking at her reflection in the oven, twirling around and smiling at herself.  This girl has style!

During Lindalee's nap-time, Christian and I began our "home{pre}schooling".  I was nervous to start.  First of all, I didn't think he'd listen to me during lessons, secondly, I thought he might get frustrated, and, most of all, I was fearful that he just wouldn't find it fun.  Day one was a huge success.  We didn't do 1 lesson {as planned}, we flew through almost 5 lessons.  He was especially fascinated with the solar system- the hot gases that make up the sun and the giant volcanoes on mars.  I got so much pleasure watching his excitement while learning.  It was a special time for the two of us.  I feel like we really needed this quality bonding experience, especially after such a rough day yesterday.   

Thankful for Legos and the happiness they bring to my little man {and me}!