This Moment

This Moment (a day late)

This Moment

Max put his jacket on all by himself!

This Moment (a day late)

Painting on the Kitchen Floor

I had the day off on Monday, and I was bored out of my mind. I was so tired of playing choo choo with Max. The thought of making Googoo walk around the room one more time, made me want to poke myself in the eye. And it was too windy to go outside. So we got out the paints.

We had recently got a large package from Amazon, and they stuffed it full of packing paper. So I laid the paper across the kitchen floor, undressed the kiddo, and opened up the paints.

Max doesn't seem to get finger painting. He doesn't really enjoy it either. So, I gave him a paint brush and threw in some crayons in case he wanted to use a different medium. He decided to paint with the crayons, which was interesting. Haha.

He had a great time painting that huge paper (and a little of my floor). But as soon as I said "don't worry if you get messy, you can take a bath when you're done" that was the end of painting. "Bath? Bath you say, let's go! All done! Bath!"

My son is a daredevil

This Moment

Christmas 2011

I'm going to keep this short, but we had a pretty nice Christmas. Max was thrilled with all of his gifts, and if I could get my phone to cooperate, I would upload a video of him on Christmas morning, seeing all his presents. But I can't, so just imagine an excited little guy.

We spent the morning at our place and the afternoon at my mom's, where all the family that was

in town gathered. It was a nice, relaxing day.

Creative Gifts from a Student

I received some great gifts this year from my students and their families, as always. One of my favorite surprises was a goody bag full of these homemade gifts:

The tree is made out of paint color samples! Reduce, reuse, recycle! You know I gotta love that!

Some Guatemalan worry dolls, with a kid-decorated box.

And this oh-so-simple bookmark, will definitely come in use, and I won't feel bad when I misplace it- because I will misplace it. I'm amazed at how many bookmarks I go through.

There was also a picture frame, magnets, and some sticky notes. I go through sticky notes like no other, and I need new magnets to hang up the kids' art, so really, these were very useful gifts for me! I love the thought behind them!

2011 Christmas Cards

I decided to make our Christmas cards this year, because I have soooooooooooo much extra time on my hands, apparently. But I was very happy with the results:

Happy holidays to all!