Today we ran a bunch of errands - one being a trip to Joann's to get the parts needed to create a monster for Monkey. We drew a rough sketch on some flannel and went to town with these two beasties. I was shocked at how into choosing the fabric and floss colors for his (the yellow) monster he was. The red one belongs to Peanut and I did all the choosing while she did some napping. The first words out of her mouth when she woke up were "Where's my monster?"
It was fun to see the kids tote these ramshackle little guys around all day, though by dinnertime Monkey mysteriously couldn't find his (he'd been playing in the mud in the backyard, so I have a feeling our new friend was initiated into the fraternal order of four year olds. I had a meeting to go to and couldn't investigate then, though) and Peanut's went missing at bedtime. But it was fun while it lasted and was a whole day's worth of entertainment. At this point that is really all I can ask for, right?