Messy playtime!

It just hit me this weekend that I am going back to work next week! YIKES! I have been off since December 6th and my mind has been really off since Jonathan was born. Apparently I suffer from "momnesia". I think the work routine will be good for all of us! I found a clinic with a daycare on site, and they also have a preschool where Matt will go every morning. He'll join Jonathan around lunchtime and for nap. I am excited to get started and see how Matt does in his new environment.

Since I'll be back at work, I figured we'd better do some special things this week while we have the time. Jonathan was napping this morning, so Matt & I took advantage of the rare one on one playtime and went out back. I introduced him to one of my favorite activities - play with cornstarch and water! He dove in and loved it!

Here we are, starting out. Matt had no idea what I had in store for him.

One of his favorite sayings these days is "I do myself, Mommy", so he was overjoyed when I let him pour the cornstarch into the pan.

Enter the water, and the game was on!

Midway through, he had to make sure I was getting messy too, so he asked me to join in with both hands as well as pouring some of the mixture onto my hands. I looked at him to tell him how much I enjoyed playing with him. Tears came to my eyes when his reply was "me too, Mommy!" I just love motherhood!

I started showing him how the mixture "melts" and he just wanted more.

It was time to clean up, and I intended to have Matt scrape the patio with me to start the cleaning process, but he had different plans and just added the scraper to the mixture.

He was finally done and decided to help with the clean up!

Jonathan woke up from his nap and was happy to see us!