MAKING MESSES

Making Messes—Sometimes our cleaning help at the baby house must sigh when she sees me coming. With ten toddlers, activities can become pretty messy. If one messy baby decides to leave finger prints on the clean table, there are sure to be at least five other handprints on the table during paint time. Walking through muddy manure on the farm, leaves lots of footprints on the cold cement floor of the little baby house. When we decided to plant a container garden, the babies loved putting their whole arms into the black dirt while taking the little plants in and out of position. At the end, they were so dirty; the monitors took each one directly into the showers. It seems the messier the activity, the more fun that it is for the babies, and luckily, they clean up with soap and water.