- a 3×3 foot chalk drawing in shades of pink

- a city of clay animals with cars and no parking signs

- several pages in the Strawberry Shortcake coloring book

- several pages in the Anti-Coloring Book

- two storybook theatre plays. “Little Pink Riding Hood” and “The Three Pigs” (”Catie! Now your the first little pig, Flora. Show you’re Flora by jumping. ” [Catie jumps] “Now you’re the second little pig, Merri. Show you’re Merri by spinning around.” [Catie spins] etc.)

- two brand new song-and-dance number about 1) “God, the invisible thing that is in charge of everything” and 2) “Aliens might exisit, but you don’t have to worry, oh no no no.” These were complete with costume changes.

- a newly coreographed cancan (which involved a death-defying leap off a small table.)

- a cardboard box bed room, aka the city of the clay animals

- a traditional bedsheet fort

- a mulit-level barbie house, drawn on the white board with details like “fine glass perfume bottles” on the “vanity”

- a game that involves making a fanfare sound and jumping out of boxes

They started this marathon at 11am. It’s now 5 o’clock.

Eden just asked me what else she could make out of clay. I suggested a car. “Why, that would be a new challenge for me Mama!”