Coloring

This morning we laid in the floor and colored for more than an hour. It started off simple, then we wound up doing so much more. We kept is casual and low key and just talked and explored as we colored. Alex found a word search in one of her activity books and I circled an A for Alex and asked her if she could find other A's. She did. Then she said, "Let's find P for Pat." I was thrilled for her. She must have remembered this from dinner Sunday night. How wonderful. So we looked for P's and then picked a few other letters to search for. We colored big and small, dark and light. This sparked a game of "Daddy's hair is short, but Mommy's hair is ____." "Day is light, Night is ____." And so on. This went on as long as I could come up with analogies and they did great. We chose and experimented with different colors. I took turns coloring with Alex and then Emma and over again. It was great. No TV, no radio, no distractions... just me & the girls.
Alex had PT this afternoon & Emma had OT. We went to the pool with Nonnie & the girls played with Caleigh & Caden. We read books tonight with Nonnie and Alex & I sang "America the Beautiful" for her. That is currently Alex's favorite song. We also said the Lord's Prayer and sang the Doxology. That is a new one that both girls are quickly picking up on and really love.