During Minnesota's Stay-At-Home period, I have been thankful to have a large family. While it means a lot of extra work (we've been running the dishwasher twice a day + a daily load of hand-washed dishes), it also means a lot of options for a variety of social interactions during the day.
We have been playing lots of games together. Olivia's favorite is This Little Piggy (she grabs her toes to let us know she wants to keep playing if we stop). Spot-It is a favorite of Frankie's, but he can't play with Charlie or it ends in a fight. If we can get the 2 littlest ones asleep early, the rest of us can play games like Telsestrations and Catan.
We haven't found too many activities the entire family can do. About the only thing we can do all together (well, almost...Olivia sits in her Bumbo at a distance and watches) is wrestle.
The last time all 4 kids were attempting to pin Seth. They couldn't get close so I joined in to help. I am sad to say that it ended with Seth having all 5 of us at his mercy, pinned into one giant pig-pile. Several times. To be fair, Frankie and Charlie got in the way more than they helped. And Seth was a wrestler in high school, while I kept busy with things like Mock Trial and theater.
Still pretty pathetic, though.
If you watch to the end, you can see him pinning all the kids.
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