Entertaining my kids.

Sorry... I´ve been absent for a while. Or, at least, not blogging. That´s because I am still sticking to all my resolutions - and because the kids are still at home, school will only start on Monday. So, these last days, I gave my best to be a perfect mommy entertainer. I pulled all registers. On Monday, I let them work with my polymer clay...

 

Ronja made most of the beads. Mehmet enthusiastically made the "hedgehog": And because we had some around, we also used up the last scraps of white clay:

 

I leave it to you  to figure out what that is... before you realize the thing in the left upper corner is an ashtray and... become judgemental :) Yep, my nine year old made me an ashtray... But it turned out fine, right? And just think about all those fine motor skills she´s developing :)

While we´re at it... Miro learned his first arithmetics this week:

 

Counting two plus five, with spices on my dishwasher. And he urged me the whole week to give him tasks. With cuttlery, cars, the people in our family. He´s fascinated by the fact that 3+3 equals 6, but also does 4+2. On Tuesday I took them to a science museum near our home: 

 

It´s  a small, private discovery center, only a ten minute walk from our home and pretty cheap, but with tons of awesome stuff, like toys working with solar energy...

... or treadmills to make your own energy...

 

or a phone booth, where you can call an apple tree or a snail. This is Mehmet, after the "snail" asked him if he was a delicious lettuce:

 

So. This was was a nice, educative event. My favourite spot is maybe the cabinet of mirrors. Hard to take pictures in, but I tried to capture why I like it:

 

It looks as if you were dangling over the ground. You know, my twins didn´t dare taking their foot off the ground, because they feared their other foot would begin to fly automatically. So cute. And the effect works on all ages, I enjoy it just the same :)

I´ll spare you more pictures of the dessert my girls made on Wednesday, or the "band" they formed and entertain me with, or Miros magnetic constructions. And I´ll keep the craft we made today for another day, because it deserves a post of it´s own. Let´s just say, it was quite a productive, peacefull week.

And through all of this, I didn´t only manage to keep my sink spotless as it was in the post five days ago, nope, I also cleaned up my whole kitchen, so clean, that I can hardly believe it´s mine. Organized tons of drawers, dusted boards, mopped everyday. Cooked nutritious, healthy meals with lots of veggies. And took a picture everyday. And that´s deserving another post, too. 

So - untill now, all is well. I´m a good girl. I didn´t explore a lot of new tunes this week (at some place I had to cut it back), but I really enjoyed listening to my playlist from 2009. I think one of my all time favourites, the song that really made me treasure Jason Mraz´s music, is this one: 

I remember, back then, I was so impressed with the line "In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you" that I took it as the preface of the book I wrote. Which I´m never intending to publish, so I guess I´m not hurting any copyrights. No, seriously, Jason Mraz is, to me, the master of lyrics. And crossing genres. Thinking about it, he´s the one of my favourite artists I haven´t seen life yet. 

Now, that´s a resolution for this year then, too :)