Happy Valentine's Day!

Kate had a great time making valentines on Friday. When Keanu got home from school, he helped add the finishing touches. Watch your mailbox!

How does your garden grow? part 2 - painting

Ok, so to go along with our two bigger planters for the veggies, I picked up a couple of cheap planters for the marigolds and decided that the kids could paint them first. Last Friday Keanu was off playing tennis with Kevin, but Kate and I got started with the painting anyway.

First, you've got to put on your painting apron and sleeve protectors. Kate LOVES Keanu's yellow Spongebob apron even though she's got her own pink KiKi and LaLa one. If you try to put it on her, she screams for her "Baobao!"
Then you get situated in your high chair with paper on the table and a plastic pot with a bit of paint squeezed on. Smear it around until you're happy with the results.
And here are Kate's masterpieces

ABC's

We decided to do a little crafting around here! Kate was napping this evening so Keanu and I had a good time with glue! OK, so I manned the glue and he manned the cookies. Here's our project:

1. Cut colored paper to the desired size. He just cut an A4 sheet in two.

2. Make a letter or any design you'd like with white glue.

3. Put small pieces of cereal, beans, uncooked pasta, or whatever you've got in your pantry on the glue.

4. Show off your finished work.

5. Take a picture of your masterpiece.

6. Allow to dry.

7. Hang it high on the freezer so little sisters don't pull off the cookes and eat them, glue and all. (I'd actually bought the cookies for Kate, but I didn't read the package and found out afterwards that they're not the kind that melt in babies' mouths. Instead, they're rather a choking hazard and good for toddlers or toddler art projects. -ed.)

What's this? Wednesday