Sailboats

Today Katherine threw a fit in the car on the way home from playing at the mall with friends. It was because I would not take her on a sailboat on the ocean right now. Hmmmm there was no way I could give her that. I am not sure how she got fixated on the idea of sailing except that her outfit had sailboats on it.

I decided that since we could not go sailing on the ocean we would make our own sailboat and our own ocean so when she woke up from her nap I had it all ready. I had put a blue blanket on the den floor to be the ocean. I had cut a brown paper bag into "sails" and put them on a "mast". She decorated the sails with finger paint and then we attached it to her boat, a box. She thought it was great fun. Luckily, Caroline slept through it all so Katherine and I were able to have a fun afternoon playing pretend. She thought it was great.