Surviving January: Finger-and-Toe Painting
This has been a yucky week – no other word for it. The kids and I have colds, and the nose-wiping, combined with other things, had a result akin to the seriously heavy-duty bubble maker from last week’s post. I’ve felt bombarded. People want to help, but they can’t, because a) they can’t get here, and b) I wouldn’t want them to be the ones to find the banana peel that the kids left on the sofa. And then sat on.
On the upside, the mashed peel helped pick up the granola from the sofa crevices.
While I leave my family dissecting my grammar (apparently a preposition is not something to end a sentence with 😉 ), I’ll move on to the high point of the week for me – the photos I took for the blog! I should be able to get out of the snow-packed driveway this afternoon, finally, to get sand for our beach-in-January. In the meantime, we pulled out the finger paints.
The day started out so beautifully organized:
anticipation
And the kids did such a lovely job:
picture perfect
You expect, of course, that finger paints will not stay on the fingers:
the serious artist
synchronized painting
Tip: If you do this with kids who have colds, wipe noses well, before you start. Eww. Once the colors mix together, you start to wonder…
mixed media?
I realized how much I needed to count on Crayola’s “non-toxic” and “washable” promises:
can we get this in banana flavor?!
Toward the end, “art” went by the wayside, in favor of experiencing the moment. Finger paints are kinda slippery:
mud-wrestling style
picture of success
pleeeease can I take a bath now?
This is what I feel like at the end of most days:
the masterpiece
But it is a GOOD thing to set aside my own worries and make a child’s day happy.
so let's get started already!
Thanks so much for making MY day by “coming” to keep me company on the snowy mountain this morning. And you didn’t even have to sit on my eau du bain-ana sofa. (Leaving that tangled mess for the French-speaking family members to dissect… 🙂 )
sunrise on the foothills
Next week, I will do my best to post some experiments with shooting fully manual (yes, I finally did it!), plus photos edited with a free 30-day trial download of Adobe Lightroom. Until next week, happy Wednesday!
Oh my gosh! You have totally outdone yourself now. These pictures are…everything: beautiful, charming, crisp, hilarious, full of character…..Wow. Just wow. Your kids are going to treasure these times forever, and be very proud of their mama, as well. So this was a BAD week?? What do you do on GOOD weeks?
I must just share one little itsy-bity thing, though. You have a sentence in your post that has absolutely NO NOUNS in it at all: no subject, and no object for your preposition. Aren’t you so ashamed? What did your mother teach you, anyway? 😉
Seriously, your pics made me miss your kids terribly. Wanna come on down from the mountain and get warm at my house? We’ve got Kleenex…
Nouns, schmouns. 🙂
Kleenex sounds nice. The kids are getting tired of their shirt sleeves. Plus, we’d love to see your kids!
Thank you so much for the beauty you are sharing. In the chaos of my home you are creating an oasis for me and my cup of coffee to visit each week. Hope this is a better week for you.
Well, her mother didn’t teach her all she knows —- that’s for sure! And you have to admit that that nounless “sentence” packs a punch!
P.S. My nose is continually snotty, so can I come, too? BYOK?
Your Grandma A used to say, “Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
And of course our response was immediate compliance 🙂
You all made my day! Sounds like a BYOK party at Julie’s… Mom, of course, it snot a party without you! 😛
LOVE the pictures! love the comments!
Dearest Debbie,
For one, mom and me agreed that your grammar is super and that it should not be messed with! I don’t even know HOW to write a sentence without a noun. Don’t they say genius’ “learn the rules to break them”? You are obviously smarter than me is. I, just, learned, the, rules, but, still, working, on, how, to, break, them!
Love you. The pictures honestly took my breath away, Deb. I’m so glad that this is your hobby, because I’m going to have kids too, and you’ll need practice and (neener-neener) I’m going to be the closest sibling!