A day home

Lately we have been doing a lot of shopping due to the approaching holidays. The kids have been a little under the weather and so I decided that we would spend a day at home (except for dance). I guess the kids had to work a little harder to find things to do that weren't boring since we were here for so long, because they explored new depths of the house today. I was a little startled when Owen came out of Ainsley's room with a binky! We haven't used binkies in a while now so I was surprised, then I was completely baffled when I realized that it was one of Owen's newborn binkies. How long has that thing been hiding in some random corner I wonder? The nice thing was that he didn't suck on it. He just thought it was something to chew and got bored with it after a minute or two.
Ainsley resorted to playing in her closet under all her clothes after I made her clean up her project. I wish I would have gotten a picture of that. When Ains does a project it involves pencils, glue stick, and scissors. Nothing is really made. Paper is just cut and re-cut, occasionally glued, and every so often there is some sort of writing. The result is a MASSIVE quantity of teeny tiny papers COVERING the floor. The cleanup after a project is always fun!
Owen also decided to do a project of his own today. It involved a crayon and my couch. Due to the fact that my couch is canvas, and canvas is the least kid friendly fabric out there, I didn't dare scrub the crayon out because it would have left a huge bleach stain. So I removed the covers and attempted washing them in the washer. They are already reaching the point where they will need replaced so I hope I didn't ruin them. Actually, I guess ruining them would mean I might get new couches, so that might not be a bad thing. I guess we'll see!