Scones

The first taste of chocolate; 

a lesson in kneading. 

There's splashing and stirring, 

flour prints everywhere. 

Baked, big eyes, blowing, '"hot"; 

dancing with girlhood. 

We Got Our Wings Clipped

                

Today marks day ten of bronculitis (that's a cold to it's fullest glory). It's not the relentless flem that's getting us down but the pending cabin fever. This morning I devised a plan to get to the library- we would sneak past the librarians, sit in on storytime, divert the coughing onto someone else's kid. I couldn't work out all the kinks, and realized the girls would probably lose their hand stamp privileges- thus we would all end up back home in tears.

Yes we're knee deep in amoxocillin, tylenol, and thieves oil. We dodged some Ukrainian home remedy voodoo- "wrap baby in heated pig fat", "pour eucalyptus oil down their nostrils", "layer clothing until children are like cabbage". We politely declined, all we have is to wait.

By now the struggle to stay entertained is real. I've found tricks up my sleeve that I didn't know were there. The q-tips in the tub trick. The dinosaurs in the stroller trick. The tutus on the teddy bear trick. Wrote a song and dance entitled "Eat Your Cheese".

This is our third bout of illness this season. But I'm thinking were just caccooning, that come spring we'll emerge as butterflies, perfectly sharing, perfectly potty trained, and using three word sentences (like "go, dog, go")- we're working on it ;) Enjoy some pics from our shut-in activities!

Their first baking lesson!

                       

snack time!

100 baths

 Our books of choice right now, they're trying a bunch of sounds out from "Go, Dog, Go"!

Googly Eye Game instructions: let the girls play with googly eyes. Spend the entire first part of their nap searching the house for them. Bonus points if you say a prayer that you don't find any in a diaper!

A package arrived from some [great]grandparents- red moccasins!

Girls are eating their bananas in the lids of their bubble bottles- nifty storage. 

Solomia is a big bad wolf. She howls like a wolf too "ooow!" Anya is Little Red Riding Hood. In our rendition of the story they happen to be best friends. 

Threading pipe cleaners into a strainer- the finest of motor skills these girls have!

Were working on coloring only on paper :)

drumset- just like dad's!

3-D dot stickers- the best Dollar Tree find

puppets

One of our favorite Christmas gifts- thanks Joe and Ky!

I'll say "do you want to do a puppet show", and they'll run to their theater, put the puppets on and say ""hi!"

Tried to do some laundry. Came running up to find that the girls got in some baking ingredients. Anya was super upset about it- tried to sweep it up. Solomia just continued to eat brown sugar, unfazed. 

endless remedies

so grainy, too classic not to post, we're trying to teach them to do some chores. They can put their legos away, throw their diapers out, and put their clean folded clothes into a drawer- all crumbled up!