What will $4 buy you? Two large bags of zoo pasta and endless minutes of creative and quiet time for the kids. I found these on sale the other day and thought they would be perfect for art projects. Grace loves threading the animal shaped pasta onto baker's twine to make necklaces and bracelets. This girl has unbelievable focus and fine motor skills. This is not considered play time for her....there is a task at hand. William is content dumping the pasta from cup to cup, taking a nibble, dumping some more, shaking his new noise maker, nibbling a bit more, and then throwing giraffes and elephants into Koby's bowl....he loves to share. It is moments like these that I truly see their individual personalites shine and how William is all "boy"...much more physical, using all 5 senses, and less focused on the "end goal" but just enjoying the process. Whereas, Gracie is methodical, fine-tuned, and pays strict attention to detail.
I love our new barstools with backs (key words: with backs). The barstools we had prior to these didn't have backs and we'll just say there were numerous accounts of injuries from falling. I bought our previous barstools 3 years ago with my Pottery Barn discount for $120 (total), just sold them for $110, and purchased our new ones on Craigslist for $60. What a deal! The kids spend copious amounts of time there while I prepare meals. I revel in their antics and our conversations. Someday, they will sit here all grown up- doing homework, inhaling dinner so they can quickly head out again, and we'll probably dicuss college choices here, as well. Sniff sniff. Right now, I'll enjoy wearing my zoo animal necklace.
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