Dylan's "track"

I bought a long roll of paper at IKEA imagining rainy winter afternoons spent in the house finger painting. I have found that while the finger paint is somewhat washable, it's just so incredibly messy, and I don't have an "activity room" where I can let Dylan splash about. I've decided that finger painting is not an activity to be done on the kitchen table in dangerous proximity of my white curtains, cream carpet and beige living room set (yes, I'm one of "those" moms - I know, I suck in that regard). I have concluded that it's more a spring/summer activity to be done on the balcony when we aren't wearing six layers of clothing (trying to take off your clothes with painted hands and arms is tricky) and can just jump right into the bathtub at the end. So then we began using the roll of long IKEA paper to design "tracks" for Dylan's cars to run on. The tracks have evolved into entire towns complete with houses, trees, sidewalks and traffic lights. I call this place "Dylandia" and we spend hours creating new features for "citizens" (ie, his Little People) of this world. I am terrible at drawing, but Dylan doesn't seem to notice. Here's a video of Dylan last night with one tiny track I created to fit into a corner of our living room. The one that went the entire length of the hallway was getting difficult to navigate, and every time someone would open the front door, Dylan would happen to be behind it running his car on the "track" and get pegged.

Pista from Michelle Marie on Vimeo.

Dylan playing with his "pista," which means track in Italian