Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Big Cardboard blocks at the library

We went to the library and played with the Reader Rabbit Toddler program again for a bit, and then Esme asked if she could play with the big cardboard blocks they have stacked up in the corner. We had a lot of fun with those, so much she didn't want to quit and I had to drag her back out to the car yelling 'get down come back blocks!' While she was playing with them she built tall towers, walls, 'stonehenges' on top of each other, paths and bridges until she ran out of blocks each time and had to start a new strategy. At one point she had built a bridge out of all the blocks and drug a chair up to the structure and got up on top of the chair. I said 'NO you don't - those blocks won't support you.' She was going to walk across them! I told her she was 'too heavy' and she took that pretty well considering the amount of work she had done in preparation! Then she started building walls and hiding behind them again. After two warnings to pick up put away (she had been at it for nearly a half hour) I drug her out to the car where Mark was reading his book - and went back in to pick up put away myself. They had absolutely no chemistry books worth reading in either the regular nonfiction or the book sale :( They did give me a tip where the Murray students sell their old texts though... if we ever get up there.

Now she is watching Muppets season one with Daddy and eating grapes. She really likes her fishes book, a Golden Guide - she says 'fish fly!' In lots of pictures in there, they do.

We bought more ravioli at the store today, among other things. I've convinced her into banana pudding and chicken followed by a plate of grapes.

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