Kids got a small bit of a haul for xmas. With the $ from the great grandparents, the kids chose their toys from wal-mart. Mikel chose a little construction tool set. It has a nice little board area thing, that you can screw gears to and then spin one and it spins them all. Also the drill that came with it actually works. Was very amusing to watch Steven use it to put the screws in, then reach with his hand to unscrew them. After several tries of showing him the reverse, on the drill, he still used his hand to take them back out. They fought over the drill the whole day on the 24th. Steven chose a 'piano'. It has buttons on the side that make drum sounds, while a selection of 'music' is played. Also, a rolling 'music sheet'. In the store, Steven was adamant about this toy. It was going home with him. It was abandoned in favor of the drill, to be played with throughout the day. I also picked up an alphabet block set, which they stack and knock over every day. Mikel makes different stacking shapes with it. It has 2 full sets of the alphabet, numbers, and some punctuation. They also got a few more toys, but they aren't anything compared to the drill. So, I won't be mentioning them.
We stayed home all xmas, as hubby said he was too tired to go anywhere. They've had a lot of jobs lately, and the are mostly crummy, I guess. Crawl spaces are not fun when you don't use knee pads. Poor thing.
Not much happening in our neck of the woods, will find something more interesting to post eventually. :) |