Thursday, May 9, 2013

Thrift Store. Found a Ramone (from Cars) McDonalds toy.

Library.  Spent quite a bit of time engage in playing with these cars, until she got fed up with the rowdiness of the boys at the next table. (She actually told me that's why she got up to do something else.)  Puppets. Computer. Trains. Etc.

Got out all her science kit stuff and various other receptacles, laid them all out on the bench, and started pouring water back and forth.  At one point she said, "Mom, this is serious science, NOT a water game."  Okay then.

Then she put some of the water in her play kitchen sink.  She was washing dishes, but then she started washing everything, including scrubbing every nook and cranny of the play kitchen. She said she didn't want Baby Henry to get dusty when he plays with it.  She asked me to help, some I grabbed a wet rag to help her.  I was done and she was still scrubbing!

Then she moved on to (unbeknownst to me, as I was in my craft room balancing the checkbook) clean the table where the cookbooks go:

Then she moved on to my alarm clock.  At that point I intervened to tell her not to use the wet rag on my antique wood dresser.  She asked me to get the dry duster for her, so I did, and she dusted my dresser and nightstand!

Then she got out the dominoes, and turned them into food:

She built a Lego ambulance!  (If you look at it sideways and squint.)  Dobby was in a fire, and the firefighter put out the fire, and then Dobby had to ride in the ambulance while his dad Harry Potter drove.

Cars 2 (finally got it from the library). And the short cartoons on the DVD (one Toy Story, one Mater tall tale).

In the middle of the movie, the guy came to replace the glass in our window (it cracked randomly one day -- the theory is that it was due to drought conditions).  He took the window out to his truck to replace the glass and Lucy wanted to watch him do it. So we went and watched him. While were out there, she spotted the water meter manhole cover thing and wanted to know why it said "Mater". :-)

We were looking at animated gifs, and we saw this one:

Lucy said, "That's... go... me..."  So close!  (I was actually looking for a "This!" gif -- turns out she can read that too.)

Listened to the read-along book This Is the House That Jack Built. 

After dinner she found her scrub brush again and scrubbed the outsides of my kitchen cabinets and refrigerator.

She had me write a bunch of names and a couple sentences down on her new mini-legal pad. She then read them out loud several times over the course of an hour.

I read her Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni, but she read about 1/10th of the words for me! That was fun.