Lately, my two older boys have been getting up earlier and earlier, despite the fact dawn breaks later and later these days. And my husband has a new job that takes him out of the house really early to commute to a nearby city. So I’m on my own from an early hour with two preschoolers (boys!) and a baby.

One morning last week, the baby was still sleeping, breakfast was long since over, I was still in my pjs, teeth unbrushed, eyes barely open, blearily wondering how to entertain my boys after the night I’d had with our teething little one.

We hit the couch, I stretched out and pulled our cozy throw over the three of us. It was time for their fave game, and mine: Baby Bird Hatches in the Nest. Basically, they burrow under the blanket and pretend they are an egg started to shake and crack and hatch. The babies emerge tweeting feebly and Mama Bird, aka me, the happily-still-horiztonal slacker mommy pretends to feed them worms and bugs, beak to beak.

Fortunately, you can play this over and over again, as my guys seem to have an almost endless appetite for it. Plus there are many variations: Baby Dinosaur, Baby Reptile (anything with an egg) or even Baby Bear (in the den) etc.

That morning, we lounged, warm under the blankets on our cushy old couch, for almost an hour!  We were all laughing and snuggling, the kids were stretching their imaginations with scenarios the baby birds got up to, and I was spending quality time with them – albeit from a horizontal postion, half asleep!

I highly recommend it!

What is your favourite slacker mom activity to do with the kids?  I’d love to hear it.