Anneka loves to stand on the windowsills and look out at the people, cars, and dogs below. When she sees dogs, she gets SUPER-excited and starts pointing and saying "Dog! Dog!" and then "Woof-Woof-Woof!" When she sees workers outside in their orange vests who are sweeping the snow or chipping away at the ice, she calls them "Papa" because Leif has an orange coat. And anyone else, she calls "Man".
Our friend, Ashley recently started a website for missionary moms: http://formissionarymoms.com. It's really creative and helpful and fun! One of her activity ideas for small children was an "indoor sandbox" with bowls of rice. Anneka LOVES this. I let her do it twice yesterday and she was in heaven.
And then, as you can imagine, the cleanup is great after such an activity. After one particularly large dump of rice, Anneka went and got the broom and dustpan all by herself. She really likes to help me clean- vacuuming, sweeping, and mopping the floor on our hands and knees with cloths. It's takes a very long time to clean this way, but it's worth it because she has so much fun and is so cute.
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What fun pictures! I love that adorable little outfit. How cute that Anneka loves the "indoor sandbox" so much! Joyelle and I were just doing that this morning ourselves and also made a pretty impressive mess. Thank you also for the encouraging words about the site!
We so enjoy seeing our darling vnuchka on the blog and can hardly wait to spend time interacting with Anneka...soon!
SO cute! She is such a beautiful girl! That looks like fun! I'll have to try that sometime.
Just a thought as to how to manage all the "sand", put down a sheet and let her play on that. Then pick up the four corners of the sheet to get the rice to the middle then carefully dump it back into the bowl. It also helps witht the re-use factor! Love the pictures, she is growing into such a beautiful girl!
Hi all,
We used the rice at school in a box for young kids. It is fun for them. She looks like she's having a great time, and what a good little helper and patient parents. Love, Grand Mama Irene
That looks like fun...I will have to keep that in mind for when Naomi is older!!!
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