I totally stole this idea from my neighbor, Meghan, who had posted pictures on facebook of her son (only two months older than Carter) peacefully playing with a couple of bowls of elbow macaroni, and some spoons.  I thought to myself, wow, what a great idea!  I’m totally gonna do that! and had visions of Carter consumed with playing with elbow macaroni for like twenty five minutes without a peep.  I pictured him fascinated by the activity and would oblige to playing nicely while I did something fun with Brayden.

Meghan’s son must be a little less crazy than mine, because here’s what happened in my kitchen . . . which is far from what it looked like happened in hers!

The mess took about five minutes to make.  The cleanup?  Ha.  You don’t even want to know.  I will probably be finding random elbows all over the kitchen for the next three years.

At least one of my children got the hang of what to do with them. . .