and other times

Play-Doh

Is it odd that I *just* gave Jude some Play-Doh to play with for the first time a few days ago? I don’t know what I was waiting for… Was I worried about the mess? Was I worried about the amount of ‘Doh he might ingest? Yes. Both.

I was silly to worry.

Jude has been having a fantastic time, standing on his Learning Tower and playing with his Play-Doh on the kitchen counter. He has been wonderful about keeping the Doh on the counter and not tracking it all around the house, and although I have to remind him occasionally, he hasn’t yet eaten any of it.

His favorite thing to do is to pull the big ball of Doh into pieces and then use a plastic scoop to transport the pieces to a cup. Jude also *really* likes it when I shape the Doh into a bunch of little balls. He likes to stack them and pull them apart. Right now, we’re only playing with one color at a time (we alternate through all four colors daily), but I imagine we’ll start combining colors soon.

The weather has been pretty crappy here in Chicago. Although it was in the 80s this past Friday, since then we’ve been hovering in the 50s. Plus, it has been rainy. Boo. All that’s to say that Jude and I have been having lots of in-door fun lately. Play-Doh, forts, listening to the Alkaline Trio and dancing… You name it, we’ve done it!

Here’s to (hopefully) nicer weather on the horizon!

29. April 2009 by Jillian Frank
Categories: Daily Life, Jude | Tags: Alkaline Trio, Learning Tower, Play-Doh | Leave a comment