Today is…Friday Oct 15, 2010
We prayed.
We tried looking at our Gospel picture, but Giant was much more excited about a Hallowe’en craft book he’d found:
The main question for the morning was: “When can we do a Hallowe’en craft, Mommy?”
I did manage to sneak in a Gospel picture. Giant’s interest perked up when I pointed out the snake in the picture:
Poor boy has got a bad case of Hallowe’en on the brain…Must take after his Mom 😉 (I LOVE Hallowe’en!).
We worked on our morning message. Giant wrote down a body part of a pet spider, “lagz [legs]”:
And then we were off to the Gym (mommy/exercise group). We exercised, played a fun game of “Going On A Bear Hunt” which involved lots of running and jumping, and then walked home in some nippy Fall air.
We got home, had a snack
of apple pie and ice cream,
and started a Hallowe’en craft:
Green Monsters.
Giant insisted we needed to paint, I tried to convince him that making muffins with mommy would be even more fun (no, I didn’t really want to paint while Ettin was up).
Giant disagreed.
I thought, How bad could it be? And gave them the boxes and paint:
And it was fine.
For a little bit.
So fine, in fact that I decided to make muffins while they painted.
Galoot was happily talking to his reflection in the oven:
And I happily made muffins:
Occasionally reminding the boys to be careful.
My 4 year old told me not to worry.
However, I was soon reminded that while a 4 year old might be okay painting on his own:
a 2 year old (at least one of mine) is not:
May I repeat.
A 4 year old:
is not a 2 year old:
We got cleaned up and changed. Just in time to have our pumpkin muffins for lunch!
(The Hallowe’en mess project was given a proper place of rest, having served its purpose in reminding me that I need to be more attentive during craft time with 2 little boys)