Today is…Friday Oct 22, 2010
Today was the kind of day where we had a prayer and looked at a Gospel Picture on the way out the door:
Lehi and the liahona. We talked about how Heavenly Father loves us and gives us guides like the scriptures and a Prophet in our lives today, so that we can return to live with Him again.
Then we zoomed out to Gym.
Only to find it already occupied with people setting up for a wedding reception…the nerve!
I wished them luck, and found some of our exercise friends as we left the building. So we went to a nearby park instead, and the kids had a blast.
Home again, home again, we looked at our Morning Message:
Giant circled his favourite colour, red, and wrote out the word yellow: YeLo.
Yes, I do keep the temperature in the house quite cold. Why do you ask? I mean really, what are winter jackets coats (apparently there is a difference between these two terms, or so my Hubby believes) for?
After lunch, I put Ettin to nap.
Galoot decided he would hang around for a bit:
Hey there happy boy!
We started our craft time with Spiders.
I cut the bottoms off of egg cartons, and we had a big discussion about what spiders looked like. Giant told me they were black and brown and had seven legs.
Close enough.
I painted some spiders black:
And Giant transformed his project from a spider into a spotted frog and finally into a fly:
You know, I’m pretty sure he would be the kid in class that would be driving the teacher crazy because he would never do the craft properly. Or he would be the kid the teacher pitied because he never seemed to quite get what the students were supposed to be doing. For now, I just try and enjoy his innovations.
Heck, I might even be benefiting from them a bit. After painting four black spiders, I finally gave into his cajoling me to paint my spider rainbow colours like his.
This was hard for me.
A rainbow spider is Not Right.
But I tried it:
And I think I like it.
In fact, after letting loose like that, I was in the mood for another creative craft.
So I tried wind painting:
You drop a drip (drip a drop?) of paint on the paper:
And then blow it around with a straw:
Which made some very spooky Hallowe’en trees:
And bones.
Which Giant made to go under the trees.
Honestly, I’m beginning to think that doing a craft “properly” simply goes against his very nature.
Thank goodness.