Cheap Mom Trick part 2

It's Sunday after noon and my girls just woke up from their nap, and they are feeling a little bit needy and hanging all over me. I on the other hand was really trying to get some bread made for our Sunday dinner, so I thought to myself, "Self, this is a perfect opportunity to implement a 'Cheap Mom Trick'" (and yes, I always speak to myself this way) "You have gathered a pretty large mental list of them over the last year(mostly from this blog), and hardly ever put them to use." So here's what I did...it's pretty intricate, so pay attention.

I gave Grace a spray bottle filled with water, the one I use when I do my girls' hair every morning, and a kitchen towel. Showed her how much fun it was to spray a table and then wipe it off. She thought it was awesome.

And Lilly was content to hang out on the sidelines and be a spectator.

Then Grace found this Spackle spatula thingy that is actually a friends that I still need to return, and she decided that she need to smack the puddle with it. It was a little too noisy, so I made her stop, but after I snapped a shot of her getting her aggression out.

When she got bored of the table I introduced to the front of my dishwasher!

This tricked entertained her for about 15 solid minutes. And made my house a little cleaner! Win, win!