I’ve mentioned several times before that JediBoy and I tend to find ourselves centering around one room each day. Today it’s all about the kitchen. After a long breakfast with the newspaper - he asked about the big fire in Nevada (it was a brothel building, but I didn’t bother to explain that to him) and I read him the article about the new TMNT movie which we saw on Friday - we did the straw painting at the kitchen table. We cleaned up and talked, then had a little office break for me to get online and JediBoy to watch an episode of Magic School Bus. After that out to the store to get milk (and 10,000 other things we realized we “needed” once we got there) and home for lunch.
JediBoy finished eating before I did and started looking for something to do. He pulled out the Perler bead bin and proceeded to make a Perler bead lightsaber.
He asked me to iron it right away - I too often will tell him I’ll iron it later, and then it gets bumped and he doesn’t want to redo it. So I pulled out the iron and tabletop ironing board, and he was looking for something to do while I ironed. He asked to work with Sculpey but I didn’t want to fire up the oven today, so I offered him a big squirt of shaving cream. We’re lucky to have my grandmother’s old enamel top table, which will take anything we dish out. I sprayed a big pile of shaving cream right on the tabletop, and JediBoy played in it while I ironed. He worked with the plain shaving cream as a 3D medium - making piles and mountains, cities and hills and houses.
When I was done with the iron I asked if he wanted colors, so I added first blue, then red, then finally a little yellow dry tempera paint. He mixed and smushed and squelched.
He wrote a few words and made lots of line designs. When he said he was all done I took a print of the final design and carried him straight to the bathtub!
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