Distractions...

You know when just need 10-15 minutes to "get something done" and you pull out one of your master "distractions" for the kids? Crayons, paint, toys, books, laundry, the occasional Doc McStuffins marathon. Yesterday Ryan and I were trying to finish organizing our garage (we are crazy - he wanted to clean the garage for his birthday. Even Emersyn likes to organize) and we needed about 25 minutes to finish up before I needed to run in to start dinner/feed the baby/be supermom. 

Among all the junk I found a caterpillar sprinkler and thought - Yes! This will give us at least 30 minutes of fun. We ran and put swim suits on the kiddos and plugged that sucker into the water hose and .... 

SUCCESS! 

For like 5 seconds then they did this... 

What?!?! Aren't kids supposed to be drawn to sprinklers like bugs to lights? 

Humph. Radley complained that it was too cold and Emmy just does what Radley does. We are going to have to have a chat about sprinkler fun. 

Instead they stood at the water table and played until Radley sat in it and Emmy tried to follow suit and turned the thing over on her head. But, by that time we were ready for dinner and baths. 

Next time I need a distraction, I'll just have to dig out the cars... this racing activity turned into 30 minutes of solid laughter from these kiddos. 

And Radley had lots of fun chasing Emmy with Lightening while she retreated once again!

Anyone else gotta any good distraction tips? 

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