Todays recipe for fun: 4
Todays recipe for fun: 4 ziploc bags, some uncooked wide egg noodles, pretzels, crunchy peanut butter, and some raisins. Put some of each ingredient in a ziploc bag and seal. Give to infant and watch him enjoy the different textures and the different noises the bags make when rattled or banged against high chair tray. Caleb particularly enjoyed the bag of peanut butter. I think it reminded him of how I mashed up bananas and spread them on the high chair tray for him to mash his fingers in at lunch time, he loved doing that too.
Like I said earlier when I worked in a daycare we let the babies do all sorts of explorative things so they’d be able to experience something new everyday, and I think it’s fun to create things for him to play with. At the daycare they would do more liquid things, like dishwashing soap in a bag, but I was a little afraid of him opening of ripping it and having soap all over so we stuck with the safe things. I think I will add of ziploc bag of juice tomorrow or maybe some of his baby cereal since that is mushy.
Being a SAHM can be so fun! When I first was staying home Caleb was littler and couldnt do much but sleep and lay around now that he is mobile and so alert it’s much easier to find activities for us to do. I’ve really taken it on as more of a homeschool for him even though he’s so young, if I had found a daycare for him I would want one that challenged him not one where they just fed and watched him. So since he’s with me, he gets to enjoy all the fun stuff I create for him to do, lucky him huh? No really, so far he’s loved drawing and playing with the bags of food. And neither are messy so why not? I am sure Dean will laugh at the things I let Caleb play with, but when he’s smarter than his daddy he can blame me!
