Who Needs Toys?

Anna Lauren is a bit on the "unusual" side for a kid...she doesn't watch TV and she doesn't play with toys. However, she will play with random things such as paper products and crafty stuff that makes a huge mess for Mommy and Daddy to clean up, but because she doesn't play with the "normal" stuff, we let her play with whatever so we can have a few minutes to do something...it is worth cleaning up the mess.

After coloring for a few minutes (see coloring sheets on couch) she asked if she could have the boxes of paper products...needless to say, these are now "toys" rather than paper products to use for company, parties, etc. Anyway, I walked away and came back to find this...and then she said, can I cut the napkins? Of course, I said yes because that gave me another 5 minutes to do something.

And now...the living room is all clean and we are headed to bed...ahh...it was worth cleaning up for the 10 minutes of peace we got tonight!