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Marching on with Dagny
Friday, March 1, 2019 at 08:44PM 
Did it come in like a lion?
I spent the last four hours of February and the first fourteen hours of March with Dagny.
Due to her mother's work schedule, Dagny has a sleepover with us practically every other Thursday. We all look forward to it and I leave that Friday morning open for anything Dagny wants to do.
After my coffee hour, that is.
All four of my grandchildren have had to adjust to the fact that when they stay the night with me, until I've had my coffee the next morning -- two mugsful, consumed at my leisure -- nothing much else will be happening at Casa Weber.
They don't like it -- I can tell -- but I don't feel sorry for them. I advise them to deal with it because that's life.
So Dagny busied herself this morning playing with Rizzo and with her toys, checking anxiously every so often to see how much coffee remained in my cup.
You're not going to rush me, I said at about ten o'clock. She was up until midnight the night before, and had nothing to complain about.
She creased her brow but did not reply. I didn't see much of her for the next fifteen minutes, although she was nearby in the next room.
After coffee, it's our habit to get dressed and ready for the day. This morning, Dagny took the initiative and outfitted herself with clothing she found in her suitcase.
(She gets all the tags and directions correct, and when she's finished, she looks as though an adult has dressed her. Sometimes a clash-prone adult, but an adult nonetheless.)
We brushed teeth and hair and made sure everything was seen to grooming-wise, before embarking on our first adventure.
Time for slime ... but first, a portrait
Which involved repairing to the kitchen to make slime. But first, I posed Dagny on the porch and took her picture. She will be five -- or is that twenty-five? -- on her birthday in June.
Now, slime-wise, this wasn't our maiden voyage. We experimented with it -- and also with making oobleck -- a few weeks ago.
Dagny has been watching slime videos on YouTube for some time. Even so, she had never come right out and asked me to make slime for her or with her.
I'm pretty sure she thought that only very special people with unique YouTubey talents could even do anything like that.
But I isolated what I consider to be the easiest slime recipe out there, and TG and I secured the ingredients on a recent trip to the Retailer Which Shall Not Be Named.
When I told Dagny -- this was a couple of weeks ago -- that we would be making slime that day, she fairly shrieked with joy and anticipation.
After scraping her off the ceiling, I set about assembling on the countertop all the things we'd need.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I was a trifle nervous, that first time. What if my slime didn't slime up like it was supposed to? What if it didn't step up to the plate?
What if I botched it somehow? I'd only ever seen a video of it being made; I'd never attempted to make a batch in real time.
I needn't have worried; falling off a log from a supine position takes considerably more savvy than whipping up a stretchy, gooey, glitter-studded blob of pastel-colored slime.
Foolproof slime recipe
First you measure out six ounces of Elmer's School Glue. Don't use any other kind.
Measure out one-half teaspoon of baking soda.
Next, toss in one and one-half tablespoons of saline solution.
You could start stirring at that point and technically you'd have slime, but what would be the fun in that?
So you grab your food coloring and decide what color you want your slime to be.
Yellow? Add yellow. Orange? Add yellow and red. Pink? Just red. Purple? Red and blue. Green? Blue and yellow.
You get the idea.
Then, just before you mix, throw in as much glitter as you dare.
Start stirring. Once you've got the whole thing semi-incorporated, pump in about two or so cups of shaving cream (not the gel kind). Don't measure; just eyeball it.
(The addition of this sweet-smelling ingredient makes your slime officially fluffy-grade. And once you've had fluffy slime, you won't be interested in non-fluffy slime. Trust me.)
Mix, stir, mix, stir ... then ditch whatever you're stirring with and work everything together with your hands, being sure to scrape all of the shaving cream off the sides of the bowl.
Voilà! You have made slime.
Dagny and I made pink first today, and then, in honor of March, we made green.
I love making slime. Not only is the end result fascinating and fun to play with, but it's easy and delightful to make, and takes only a few minutes, and I'm pretty sure you'd have to be a real dolt to mess it up.
Pipe cleaner people and more
After Dagny and I made slime, we had a project involving pipe cleaners.
We made pipe cleaner glasses. Well -- frames. No lenses were involved.
We made a pipe cleaner person in silver -- with an oversized silver head, no neck, no hands, and no feet.
He was an abstract. And yes; he was a he. We don't do genderless at our house.
Then we made pipe cleaner numbers, one through ten (well, zero).
After that, it was time for a bite of lunch and before that was concluded, Audrey walked through the door.
It was a rainy morning (make that a rainy day, followed by what is now a rainy night), and I'm not sure I could have spent it in a more enjoyable manner.
Or in the company of a more precious little partner in crime slime.
And that is all for now.
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Happy Weekend :: Happy March
Reader Comments (16)
This is so CUTE!! I love all the pictures!!! 😍😍😍
@Audrey ... aren't they great? She took a good many of those pictures using the remote, while I was elbow-deep in slime! xoxo
Oh how fun for Dagny! And, you. I didn't think she could get any more beautiful, but there she is. I cannot believe she's almost FIVE!
There has been many mountains of slime in this here house, let me tell you. But, the pipe cleaners? Now, that's something our two youngest would love. They are always wanting to do crafts and that looks SO FUN!
xoxo
I probably should have said 'there have been mountains of slime'. I'm tired. The end.
:)
@Sally ... I like many mountains, hahaaa! And the pipe cleaners? I grabbed them at Dollar Tree, thinking, surely even I can make a pipe cleaner man! Dagny loved it and she was ALL about those numbers. She's obsessed with numbers. Isn't she something? xoxo
She is just a beautiful little girl. I can tell she enjoyed every moment you spent with her. Enjoy every moment of those "play days" because one day you wake up and they are more interested in playing online games and talking with their friends. I have seen it happen with all but the littlest of my grandkids. It is hard but you will have those precious, precious memories.
Have a wonderful weekend. xo Diana
ps. I am pretty sure I dated a guy once that I called a SLIMEball. lol xo Diana
@Diana ... haaahaha there are a lot of slimeballs out there, I understand! I'm grateful we both ended up with gallant gentlemen. Yes you are right: one day (too soon) Dag won't want to hang with Mamaw. We'll have some interesting times until then, though! xoxo
Now you've done it! My girlies were over last night and Ruby wanted to make slime. We've done it before, but never the fluffy variety. It looks fun! So, I'm going to have to get some shaving cream.
And Dagny!!! She is growing up right before my eyes. She looks so poised in that first picture. And she is beautiful like her Mother and Grandmother!
@Mari ... as always thank you for your kindness, but of course we marvel at Dagny because -- like your girlies -- she is so uniquely beautiful. And I never saw a kid get as excited about anything as she does about making slime. The shaving cream is a MUST -- R and A will love it. Extra glitter too! Next we're going to try more substantial add-ins to our slime, like they do on YouTube. Stay tuned. xoxo
I can't believe Dagny stayed so unbelievably clean! Sam would be a slime boy. He certainly can get himself dressed, but prefers to stay in the same clothing for a couple days unless I say he MUST get into something clean! He'd even sleep in the clothing if I would let him. I'm glad you have your coffee priorities straight. I usually make crocodile bread with my grands when they're little. I think maybe I'll try that with Sam rather than the slime - a little less chance for a slimy mess! Looks like fun though for kids of all ages.
@Barb ... OK before I look up crocodile bread ... your comment reminded me that I BOUGHT Dagny a little apron at Dollar Tree just to wear when we made slime! She loved it but we both promptly forgot all about it. I'm not even sure where it IS!!!! I'll find it and set it out on the kitchen desk so that next time, she's covered. She's too little to do much more than a token stir though, and then I get it mostly incorporated and THEN she takes over, and by then it's easy to stay clean. And about clothing ... she's real prissy and would never go around dirty. She's a GIRL ... complete with female sensitivities ... wonder where she got that? Haaahahahaa xoxo
The first thing out of my mouth when I saw her lovely pose on the porch chair was, "WOW, that girl has grown!" There is something about that that makes me sad. She is so cute that we want her to stay like that forever, but of course not! She is going to be and grow bigger and more beautiful! She is a gem, for sure.
About that slime, I always thought that glitter would tend to cut the hands. I guess not. I like the green fluffy stuff, but I will let you make it. :)
@Cheryl ... I hear you. It doesn't cut the hands, but I tell her to be careful not to get a piece of glitter in her eye by accident. We wash hands a lot but actually, the glitter is embedded pretty good in the glue and doesn't tend to come out very easily. As to her getting so big, oh dear, we are sad about it too. She has grown two inches in height since Christmas, I do believe. She's a sturdy little thing and so full of life and energy. I don't know what we'd do without her. xoxo
Isn’t she beautiful?? What a little heartbreaker...🥰
I think I need some slime in my life...might be trying to make some...
Hughugs
Dagny was so adorable when she was little and now I see what a beauty she is becoming.
Such fun at Grammies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Donna ... you DO need slime! It's great fun to make and therapeutic too, in my opinion. Takes about five minutes and you've got a pretty interesting substance on which to work out your hostilities, haaaha xoxo
@Judy ... you nailed it, girl. She is such a little beauty and I wish you could hear her talk. She's intelligent! Not just a pretty face. xoxo