Last Saturday, Tom had an SJSU event in the morning, so it was just me and the kiddies for the morn. We managed to get all dressed and ready for action fairly quickly, but then they whipped out the iPads and everything came to a grinding halt.
So, I’m of two minds when it comes to these devices; on the one hand, Cameron is already beginning to trace out letters, numbers, words, and shapes; she does the “read to me” stories and she plays with the math game, so there’s content there that isn’t totally empty. On the other hand, they can spend oodles of time on these things and it’s difficult to pull them away from it!
Luckily, at least with respect to Dylan, there’s always a train station or track that needs building!
Using blocks, dollhouse accessories and MagnaTiles, Dylan built a station which even included semaphores (red and green half-circles set atop blue and red blocks), a fancy ticket station (dollhouse table–there’s a little dollhouse figure sitting in the giant chair), and a playground near the station for kids waiting for the train to arrive.
Here’s the diesel leaving the station…
And, here’s Dylan looking pretty pleased with how the set-up is turning out.
We did make it out into the backyard for a bit, too. We planted 4 basil plants, watered Dylan’s lettuce and our snow peas, and we discovered some pretty tasty cherries on our cherry tree!
After Tom got home, we managed to persuade the kids that a walk on the path behind our house would be fun. Dylan and Tom went all the way to the other end of our street and down to the school and back. But, Cameron tuckered out not too far into the walk, so she and I headed back, looking for sticky monkey flowers and french broom along the way.
