this morning...

(unrelated picture of Ana at dance, taken by my phone)

This morning I made recycled cryaons with the kids.

Correction: this morning I made recycled crayons for the kids.

I thought Ana would LOVE taking the wrappers off of the old, broken crayons because I usually have to tell her to keep the wrappers on. But she wasn't that into it.

Mostly it was her sitting there watching me do it (and asking a million why questions like "why do you have to take the wrappers off?") and Jack throwing all the other crayons around.

After they were all done and cooled, we colored with them for about 10 minutes and moved on to something else.

And I thought to myself, "wow, that was pointless." Especially because half of them cracked while they cooled in the freezer. (I should have let them cool longer on the counter, I guess.)

But then I remembered that while we waited for them to cool Ana snuggled on my lap and we watched youtube videos on how crayons are made and she got to ask another million "why" questions.

And that at least she wasn't watching TV or playing on pbskids.org like she has all day the last two days.

So I guess it wasn't pointless.

In fact, I think it was worth it.