Samma & Papa must have been just as eager, because they were making plans, too! Samma brought some special new stories and an art project, and Papa brought ingredients to make his famous sugar cookies. :)
I think it must have been within 5 minutes of their arrival, that Malynn and Jack had Samma and Papa reading to them on the couch.
Lunch, naps, more story time, and dinner filled up the rest of the day.
The next day was jam packed! We started with a trip into town for breakfast bagels, and when we got home it was project time.
First we did the hand printing project. Samma got big frames with wide matting to hold special art from Malynn and Jack back at her house. She had the idea of doing colorful hand prints on the matting. It turned out really fantastic looking!
Jack moved on to playing cars, but Malynn was feeling inspired. She painted this wonderful picture with a sun, flowers, and a red M&M (bottom left).
I think she kept busy at the easel until the paint ran out! She's doing a great job remembering all the little pointers we give her from one painting session to the next.
After painting it was cookie time!
The kids picked vehicle cookie cutters, so we had train engines, 18-wheelers (which we call Peterbuilts for now), regular cars, and fire engines too.
We finished out the morning with cars, Legos, and puzzles.
Jack was getting a little sad, and we suspect it was because he knew Samma & Papa had to leave soon. So, we all put in some special car-play time with the big guy. When the kids were just learning how to make car noises, Malynn would say "werrrrrm," and it stuck. Now "werm" has expanded from just being an onomatopoeia to being a new vocabulary word in our house. When it's time to play cars, the invite is usually expressed as, "You come werm cars with me?" And, when we're driving in the real car, I'll hear things like, "Those cars are werming fast." or "Where are those cars werming to?" One of Jack's favorite things is making a long line of all his little vehicles. I'm glad I finally got a picture of it.
Then we spent a good bit of time around the Lego table. Here Malynn is showing her boo-boo. This is a terrible, freak story. Mike pulled a glass baking dish out of the oven and set it on the stove. As soon as it touched the stove the sides splintered and shattered! (Must have been a hot/cold issue.) Malynn was standing farthest away. I swooped in to pick up Jack who was closer and didn't have shoes on. Once he was away from the broken glass pieces on the floor, Malynn started crying, saying, "Ice in dere! Ice in dere!" She was holding her arm and we knew right away a shard must have shot all the way over to where she was and gotten in her shirt sleeve. She probably didn't even realize it until she moved her arm and it touched her skin. Poor thing had two little spots with 2nd degree burns. She was SO tough. Burns hurt! But she only cried that little bit when she first got hurt, and she let us take perfect care of it with aloe, band-aids, washing, and kisses. I'm so proud of you my brave, strong, little lady!
We finished up the morning with our new favorite floor puzzle: the ABCDs train. The kids do an amazing job singing the ABC song over and over to check and see what letter they need next as they string it together, and I'm so impressed with how well they are recognizing all the letters now
It was a fun, special weekend for everyone!
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