Here's a picture of the first project of the day - Mia stacking pans. She read lots of books, played with the food toys, the babies, and she was being a "puppy" again. The girls were also jumping on the mattress and singing some songs about "butterflies" and other various things. It was super cute - they were just making up songs and words.
Nora and Mia played with the sidewalk chalk outside and stayed on task for probably 20 minutes or more. And that's longer than they usually do. I took this picture in the early stages and then it kind of evolved into a "racing" game too. (Toddler version of "racing!") Mia was saying, "I gonna race you, I gonna race you! - I race you Nora!!" (I wonder if Daddy is a Track Coach?) But they were always running at different times, or in opposite directions. (They were "racing" to the gate with one piece of chalk, then coming back for a different piece of chalk.) Sometimes they'd meet on the sidewalk, say "Hi!," and keep on "racing." They were getting some awesome exercise and I never did suggest that they could take the bag of chalk down to the gate with them! I have no idea how many back-n-forth trips they made. :)
Mia has occasionally tried to pedal the bikes, but she'd much rather just use her feet to propel herself along; she can go WAY faster doing that! Well this morning she totally mastered the pedaling thing! I'm not sure exactly why, but somethings things will just click and it's a done deal. There was one thing different and I don't know if it was part of the deal, but....when she was running up and down the sidewalk "racing" she ran out of her flip-flops several times and finally we just sat them aside and she was running barefoot. When she got on the bike barefoot she was really looking at the pedal and how it was feeling under her foot. Anyhow, we'll "show-off" the pedaling skills when you arrive!
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