C

Yesterday was “C” day. Knowing the workmen would be here again to finish up the basement I planned on activities we could do around the house. I also knew the weather was going to be bad and didn’t want to be away from the house when it hit.

One funny thing happened in the morning as we were settling into our day. One of the workmen who was at the house yesterday came over rather sheepishly and asked, “Is today “C” day?” When I told him it was he asked if we were going to bake more cookies today. He said, “I know you baked yesterday for "B" day but I thought you could make cookies for “C” day.” That made me smile.

We started the day playing “C” games. Caleb and Karin assembled a large construction site puzzle on the floor. They then showed the completed puzzle to the workmen who gave them a thumbs-up.

Next, they played Cooties, Candy Land, and checkers (well, almost… we couldn’t find the checker mat just the checkers).

We then got out Caleb’s cars and race tracks. We drew a track on an empty cardboard box and the kids raced the cars around the track. They actually preferred crashing the cars into each other then sitting back and laughing. This lasted until a little finger got smashed and we needed to switch gears.

I found a large empty box in the attic and we turned the box into a car. We taped a cardboard steering wheel into the front of the box and the kids decorated the rest of the box with another “C” word… crayons. They drew tires, a brake, a speedometer, and a radio. Somehow the car managed to also turn into a bed, a dog house, an army fort, and a boat before they were done with it.

I then had the two older kids make some thank you cards. We thought it would be nice to give thank you cards to people around town with whom we interact as we are learning our letters. They used a variety of “thank you” rubber stamps as well as some stamps with fun pictures on them. After this activity we had to clean (yep, another ‘C”).

After putting away everything from the cards we started preparing for lunch. One of our wonderful neighbors brought over a cheese pizza the day before and, what do you know, cheese starts with a “C”. As we were waiting for lunch to cook the kids and I made chocolate covered pretzels. We melted chocolate bark in the microwave and then dipped some pretzels sticks into the chocolate. We set them on wax paper to cool and set. By the time we were done with our pizza we were ready for our treat. We also got to work on our “C” word (clean) again.

Before the kids went up for quiet time they got out their cameras and took pictures of “C” words around the house.

Caleb's picture of Karin's camera

Caleb's picture of a car

Caleb's picture of the couch

Karin's picture of Caleb

Karin's picture of candy

Karin's picture of the couch

After Daddy got home from work, Karin read with him and I read with Caleb. We read several “C” books: Click Clack Moo Cows That Type, Colors, Count Your Blessings, Clifford’s Busy Week, and Cars. Caleb also taught us the sign for “C.”

As a special bonus, after the big rain last night, we looked outside and saw a great big, beautiful, rainbow of color stretched across the sky. It was another great day.