Emily Ball

Partially inspired by a recent episode of Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, Emily declared Saturday to be a day of "Emily Ball".  She made and hung up posters in all the bedrooms announcing it on Friday. 

Emily ball

24 hours of fun

Extra special ballgame: 30 minutes of fun

While it's still a bit unclear exactly what the whole purpose was (even after re-watching the episode with her that night), Austin & I think she was just looking forward to telling people what to do all day. ;o) 

Emily started out by making yarn necklace name tags for all the participants.  Everyone got a nickname.  Austin = AL, Megan = MN, Lincoln = LN, Emily = IZ.  Emily explained that her imaginary friend, Karen, calls her that.

I'm pretty sure Emily was making up things as she went.  The first "event" was listening to her perform "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" using the flannel set from her birthday.

Second was a car race on the masking tape track that currently winds around Lincoln's room and down the hallway.  Emily easily won that one because she took all the short cuts and made me go all the way around the crib.

Next was a puzzle break.

Then we experimented to see which car/vehicle went the farthest down the cookie sheet ramp in the foyer.

Later in the afternoon was an activity I had actually planned on doing.  It came from this web site I found via Pinterest that has lists of fun activities to try each month.  We've already done quite a few things on the February list.  Today we made structures out of marshmallows and colored toothpicks.  The marshmallows were pretty sticky, and Lincoln was much more interested in eating them than building with them, but Emily & I put together some fun stuff.  When they're a little older I'll get out the big marshmallows and maybe some skewers so we can try some more elaborate buildings. :o)

"Emily Ball" actually only lasted about 3 hours, but it was a fun day of different family activities.