{"id":1304,"date":"2012-01-11T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2012-01-15T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:18:18","slug":"sink-or-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"Sink or Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some days are sink or swim. Or in this case, sink or float. This afternoon was clearly one of those days. You know, when you say “Yes of course you can make a huge mess in the kitchen instead of beating each other to a bloody pulp.” Sink. Swim. The game we chose was an old favorite. Sink or float.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes the simplest, least exciting (to adults) activity is the one that proves the most entertaining. These two sat for two hours<\/em> trying out different objects, experimenting with buttons and caps from water bottles, lids from old spice jars, a ping-pong ball, and some pennies. They filled the caps with pennies until they sank. They made “rain” by filling an old cinnamon jar with water and sprinkling it upside down. Oliver showed tremendous gratitude, stating, “OH! Thank you for that rain, Milo!”<\/p>\n

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And then he proceeded to bob for pennies with a small pink cup.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the baby asleep in the next room, we enjoyed each other. I whipped together a loaf of cinnamon swirl banana bread (recipe below) which I must warn you is more of a cake than a bread- not the healthy kind. I have a tremendously healthy (and tasty) recipe for banana bread that even incorporates chia powder (a great superfood) and whole wheat flour. But today was not a healthy banana bread kind of day. No, today was a cinnamon-swirl-banana-bread kind of day. Yesterday, a lock-the-keys-in-your-car-with-nothing-but-a-baby-strapped-to-your-chest kind of day. An oh-my-gosh-did-the-baby-seriously-just-poop kind of day. A holy-crap-locksmiths-are-expensive kind of day. But that was yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Awaiting the oven<\/em><\/p>\n

And so there we were, three (well, four if you count a happily sleeping baby) happy people just listening to some folksy kids’ music and smelling the delicious cinnamon-y smells coming from our oven.<\/p>\n

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Great music for kids that won’t drive the adults crazy- buy here<\/a> (we got ours used for dirt cheap)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Swim<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the bread:<\/em><\/p>\n