Outdoor Comedy

[playfelt]

We roll large exercise balls in the house - kids love it and I bounce them on them, they push the large fisherprice buses around and around but I have one of those houses that flows from room to room. As I was joking with a dad this morning as earlier arrivals were using the trucks I spent all summer saying ok guys put the trucks away and stop running around the house so we can go outside and stand at the sandbox for the next hour. And really that is exactly what was happening. I open the window in the playroom when I first get up and leave it open from 10-30 minutes depending on time of year to refresh the air in the main playroom and kitchen so figure that helps. No vitamin D benefit to outside play in the winter since only about a 3x6" piece of skin - ie the eyes shows. It can be such a miserable time for a 12-18 month old. Three and up love it and benefit from it and 2 year olds can go either way. I like that my parents don't really care too. I love it when they forget snowpants. My daughter who loves to play in the snow comes over two days at lunchtime and takes the older kids out.