Today was unbelievably excellent. We had so many adventures!! First we went to Wal-Mart to pick up some supplies to make ornaments with. Before we left though the boys had a great time laying together on the couch. They were both smiling and content to hang out together...it was a wonderful moment and I was lucky enough to catch part of it in a picture!
Then we decided to head out to Wal-Mart and we had so many adventures there! We started out by picking up a few items in the craft department and then L decided he wanted out of the shopping cart so he could explore on his own. We went straight back to the Christmas section with the trees and ornaments. L loves that part of the store. He walks around and touches each tree. Today he discovered the automatic door there that goes into the outdoor garden section. We must have gone in and out of that door 1,000 times lol. He would run through, then hold really still on the other side until they closed and then he would run full speed at them again. It was a great adventure!
From there we went to the produce section which worked out perfectly because I needed to pick up some fruit that we were running low on and L loves putting the fruit we need in bags. Then we moved on to the freezer section where we opened every single freezer and felt the bags or boxes inside. haha L loved this! At first I was worried that he would want to pull everything out of the freezers, but he totally just wanted to touch it. After that he found a bag of marshmallows (his favorite food) and was ready to go home. I still had some shopping left to do though so we compromised; he rode in the shopping cart and ate his marshmallows while I finished getting the supplies we needed to make our ornaments. Then we came home and napped.
When L woke up from his nap we made ornaments! It was so much fun. I had glass bulbs and stained epsom salt, tinsel, shredded paper, and beads for L to use. He had a great time dumping the epsom salt through the funnel and into the ornament bulbs. We did it over and over again.
Shortly after the ornaments were finished L wanted to stain his own epsom salt so we pulled out the sensory bin and went to town!
During this activity baby J woke up so we brought him in the playroom with us to join in on the fun. He really enjoyed dipping his feet in the salt and kicking around. He was smiling so big! Then we ended up putting J's feet in tinsel and he absolutely LOVED it. He was kicking and smiling the whole time. At one point L I needed to help L use the bathroom so I laid J down where his feet would still touch the tinsel and we came back to find that he had kicked it around so much that he had covered himself in it haha. He was having a BLAST in the tinsel. (Disclaimer: the stain on his belly is food coloring from my hands when I was staining epsom salt lol).
After all the fun L settled down and watched "Curious George" while I laid down and nursed J for a while. J is getting to the fun age where he looks up and smiles in the middle of nursing, it absolutely melts my heart! After that I cleaned up our mess in the playroom and started on dinner. When my husband came home he took J while I finished dinner and I snapped this cute shot.
Today was pretty much perfect. :) I just topped it off by nursing J to sleep in the reading nook while admiring how beautiful he is with our tree lit in the background. I have to be the luckiest woman alive.
