Rainbow Foam

I haven't been a very good mom lately.  Well, let me rephrase that...I haven't been a very hands on, present mom lately.  And while I think everyone, except maybe Evan and Logan, would totally understand why, it is still bothering me.  I have been very distracted and absent even when I am physically present.  I have saved lots of links to fun things to do with kids when you are cooped up inside in the cold, snowy winter but that is as far as it has gone.  The execution has been greatly lacking and there has been an awful lot of this...

Playing games on Mommy's phone

...and this...

Playing games on the tablet

...and this...

Mid-day movie time

This afternoon, I decided to change that.  (Truth be told, the boys had already watched a bit of TV this morning while I took care of a few other things.)
We had lunch, bundled up and headed outside to play in the snow.  We were out for a bit over an hour, which is a long time these days.  Once we came back in and after having a snack (these boys do nothing but eat these days!), the boys worked in their workbooks for a while.  Evan was working on identifying beginning sounds and identifying capital and lower case letter pairs.  Logan was searching for all of the similar objects and then counting them.
Then it was 4:30 pm...Logan wasn't going to take a nap, we had already watched a decent amount of TV this morning...what were we going to do until dinner???  That is when I decided it was time to execute!  This...we were going to do this!  Our rainbow foam didn't look quite as fluffy and cool but the boys still had fun.  Who knows maybe I'll have enough motivation to do another similar activity in the coming days.



This video isn't overly exciting but I just love Evan's sweet face at the end when he is looking right at the camera.