Light Box

I almost never spend time checking out blogs, but my friend told me about Play at Home Mom and I couldn't get enough of it.  I was super excited about the posts where they use their light boxes, so I jumped on Craigslist and found a great one for $30.  It is a pretty decent size, 19" x 15", and we are loving it.  Check out what we've been up to.

We painted with watercolors one day.  The light box really makes the watercolors glow, it's awesome.  The middle picture is where we were talking about mixing two colors together to make a new color.

These are floral beads, you can get them at the craft store.  They come in a little packet and are very, very tiny, until you add some water and give them a few hours.  They soak up all the water and become much bigger and beautifully transparent.  We got two different colors, pink and blue.  They look so cool together.  On this day we put them in a 9x13 glass dish and put a bunch of small glass bowl in the dish as well.  Riley loved scooping and pouring the beads from one bowl to another.

I think he looks so much like his daddy in this picture!

These things are so cool!  They feel cool and they look cool.  In this picture you can kind of see that they reflect each other too.  The more layers you have the more colors you get.  They are awesome!

Now, usually Baby Dash is not invited to play with the floral beads, because he tries to eat them.  But I was taking a chance this day and he was being pretty good.  

Until . . .

Floral beads EVERYWHERE!!  

And those suckers are NOT easy to pick up!  Oh well, at least I got a good action shot!  Unfortunately I don't think we will be trying that again soon in the near future.

Park Skillz

Dash is constantly trying to do everything that his "bruv-der" (brother) does.  It is crazy sometimes the stuff he is able to do!  Here are some videos of his (and Riley's) wicked Park Skillz . . .

This is one of my favorites!  He totally does the slide all by himself.  And it isn't a little slide either.  No, he goes for the biggest slide on the playground.  So fun!  You can see him turn himself around at the top, just like he does before going down the stairs.  Riley loves to go down this slide Superman-style, but I don't have a video yet.

They both love to swing, but Dash is finally really starting to get into it.  I love to hear him say "Weeee!" as he swings.

Here you see Dash playing on the . . . you know, I don't know what you would call these . . . bouncy animal things??  Anyway, he loves it, probably because he is always bouncing and bee-bopping himself.  You can also get a little glimpse into what a dare-devil Riley is, but he also minds pretty well and seems to understand what "safe" means, so we are able to keep him out of most perilous situations.

Of course, no park post would be complete without a little video of Jack going down the slides.  He loves this and it is so fun to watch him!