It's all fun and games...

As a new mom I am often at a loss for creative ideas about games to play with my girls. But thankfully I live in the Google generation. All I have to do is run a search for "baby games 9 to 12 months". The web site I found Games to Play with Baby had lots of fun ideas I've been trying out.

I turned the baby blanket ride into a laundry basket ride. I can fit them both in the basket and drag them around the house. Andi especially enjoys this, it always has her grinning from ear to ear. To save my back from leaning over the basket I even attached the dogs leash to the basket and pulled them around that way.

And I just love the obstacle course idea. I've been using things like towers of blocks they must knock over (Alex's favorite game) to get around, pillows to crawl over, and toys they have to roll out of the way. I'm still working on tailoring the right difficulty level for the girls to complete but be challenged.

I love Craigslist!

I've been selling stuff all day and I didn't have to go anywhere or sit outside in the Texas heat, that is why I love Craig's list. And now I have less baby stuff in my house that I am not using and money in my pocket (to buy more baby stuff that hopefully we will be using).

Now if I could just get someone on Craig's list to sell me their Evenflo 3-in-1 Pond ExerSaucer I would be estatic. The girls and I had our first play date on Tuesday with a fellow twin mom, Amanda, and her two adorable six month old girls. (She even wrote about us on her blog) They had on of these and Andi really loved it. But I was iffy about buying a toy they could spend so little time, beucase I' ve read several places that babies can injure their hips if they play to long in toys that supsend them by their hips. Anways I found out that this exersaucer is also an activity table, which I have also been looking at becuase both girls are eager to try and prop themselves up on everthing, including the other babies at our play date.