Dear Reader,
I’ve had a pin saved forever on pinterest for an activity for my toddlers that works on their pincer grasps and hand/eye coordination that involved pulling pompoms out of a whisk. I kept the pompoms close by, telling myself that I’ll use them for this activity sometime. This last week I got frustrated with myself for always just cleaning around them and continually reclaiming them from a couple of toddlers who sneak them into the front room and making a huge mess, that I set them in a different spot so that I could have them handy in order to do this activity with the girls this morning.
And then this morning came and I could not find those darn pompoms anywhere! I was getting so frustrated with myself, because I knew I was the one that moved them and lost them. I called my mom and asked where an overworked, exhausted mother would have set something so that she could go back and find it later, no joke. She wasn’t any help.
so I gave up and looked through my house for something little and pliable to stick in my whisks. Eventually, my eyes caught on these Lucky Charms marshmallows in my pantry. Perfect! we can totally work on shapes, too! I mean, they’re not the standard shapes, but they’re fun ones! Heck, colors, too!
The girls loved it! In fact, I had a heck of a time getting a good picture because they devoured the marshmallows too quickly. Granted, I don’t give them marshmallows that often (tmi but marshmallows go straight through these kids), so they were probably just scarfing them down because they couldn’t believe their good luck.
I found the pompoms about an hour ago. In a basket with a lid on it. Hey, it kept the kids out of it, right?
some days I don’t know what to do with myself.
