Activies when your twins have colds....

My twins have colds (coughs, runny noses, the works) but no fever and they've been their usual happy selves otherwise. So can't do our usual gym/mommy 'n me/playdates, but we don't want to stay confined indoors as we are all used to going out once if not twice a day. What do you do to keep yourself and your twins busy when they have colds and the options are limited with going out? We've been taking a lot of wagon rides, strolls around the mall, and today we hit the drive-thru Starbucks and carwash...it was actually fun! But I need more ideas!!

 

We are in the exact same boat. We live in Florida so we have nice weather today. I'm taking them to the park with my sister (whose 9 month old isn't mobile yet) so that they can run around and play outside. Yesterday I set up their play yard fence thing and put same blankets down with a couple of toys and we played out in the front yard. Now that I've got an extra hand today I am going to give them a little more freedom to run. I'm not sure what the weather is like where you are though.

 

When my twins have colds, the weather is usually too cold for us to really go out too, so we do a lot of indoor activities-coloring, we chase a ball around the house, dance to videos, read, play in their tent.

 

I feel your pain. I was just stuck in the house with my two for a whole week!! We are usually out once or twice a day. It was too cold for me to even take them on a walk. Im not a big TV person but Thank goodness for baby einstein and baby faith videos. My LO's were pretty sick though for two days. I made a crash spot on the floor..big stuffed bunnies, boppies and blankets and we layed there and watched videos (you know they had to be sick to sit there!). We played games, I bought popsicles so they ate those in their highchairs and made messes, read books.....those days were LONG!!

GL!! I hope they feel better!

 

I have a few things that I pull out for stormy days, sick days etc... but it's still never enough! I put pit balls into a pack n play, set up their tent and we play and/or have a snack in it, stickers stickers stickers... one of mine will try to stick stickers onto a piece of paper for 45 minutes straight! Just recently on a crazy I'm sooo tired I can't sleep and everything makes me mad day... I introduced them to "Finding Nemo" (aka "fish" and point to the tv)! Other than those "special" things we just play with all the normal toys we'd play with in a day but I try to make a big huge deal out of every little thing... like building a tower out of mega blocks... "wow, let's use them ALL"! Good luck and hope they recover quickly!