The Truth About Legos (and Also, It's Cold)..

....is that we buy them more for us than for the kids. 

Well that's not completely true. My kids love Legos pretty much more than anything else in the house (other than Matchbox cars). But they're also at the age where they're happy whatever set they get, which gives mom and dad total and complete power over what sets we want to play with them. 

And what, pray tell, is cooler than Coast Guard Legos? Other than maybe Star Wars Legos. But let's face it, it's cooler at this point to get Legos about daddy's work. And daddy's not a jedi (don't tell him). 

Lego CRABS. Oh.My.Awesome.

 Also this week we had a re-donculous cold snap. I mean, -17 degrees wind chill type of cold snap. So we spent about 3 days where we could not leave the house at all. Once the Legos and the new toys and the movie marathons got old, I had to get creative. 

I have a ton of bottles of paints that have to be used up before this summer in case we end up moving with the military. So, I squeezed a bunch into some gallon Ziplock bags, pulled the neighbor's picnic table inside, and taped it to the table so the kids could paint with their fingers (without getting messy!). 

This really didn't hold their attention at all. Until they took their Star Wars guys and had them stomp on the paint (the green was grass and the red was lava and they died if they touched the lava). They also kept getting distracted at the icicles stuck to the table, and kept breaking them off and investigating them. 

I would consider this a failed Pinterest idea but it did keep them busy for almost an hour. 

Jedi fighting in lava. Oh, the violent life of boys.

Digging for icicles. Ridiculous cold snap.

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