Henry sporting his winter hat

I sent out an S.O.S. on Facebook and asked all my mom friends, near and far, what they were doing to survive the winter. Finger painting with pudding, building forts, dance parties, arts and crafts, and day trips to museums topped the list. The next few weeks I was determined to try any or all of these things. Henry’s a little young for most of the stuff, but I thought MAYBE he’d be interested.

Our first attempt was finger painting with pudding—it turns out that my child would rather lick it off the tray than paint with it—oh well! Next, I attempted to have Henry use glitter glue (not sure how I thought that was a good idea!)–he was going to make Valentine’s for his grandparents. I mean it had to work—Pinterest made it look SO EASY! First he tried to eat the glue, then he rubbed it all in his hair, then he threw the paper with glitter glue on the carpet…I was the one who ended up doing the project and passing it off as his masterpiece —needless to say, arts and crafts are not Henry’s passion (yet!)

Henry and the glitter glue craft

It turns out that he was fine just playing with the 1,000 small toys he has in the house and thought hiding the small pieces in every shoe in the house was plenty of entertainment—it was MOM who was bored. Only a few more weeks of winter and we’ll finally get the spring thaw—I can’t wait!!!!

Henry being silly with household objects