I am quite astonished we made it through three weeks of no pre-school. Tyler’s school is in session today, but I keep thinking I will get an e-mail saying otherwise. I think we are all glad things are moving back toward normal.

We have been keeping busy baking cookies.

Or in their case, licking the mixer beater, and smashing the dough with our toy cars. (This gluten-filled recipe is the Vanilla-Bean Spritz Wreaths from Martha Stewart’s Cookies. And yes, all those vanilla bean seeds makes this a very expensive play-dough.)

Stencil painting for the car-obsessed, (the technique we used in part is demonstrated here,)

…and potato stamping. (The kids keep the pantry door open which lets lots of lovely sunlight in. This makes my potatoes sprout, and then, makes them inedible. What do you do with sprouted potatoes but make potato stamps?)

Reading stories about a Fox and lots of Sox, Green, Red, and Blue Fish, and going potty. And…well, you get my gist. I am so glad he is going back to pre-school.