One Thousandth blog post + GIVEAWAY!!

We decided to make August the arts and crafts month! 

So far its been great - even Kara has been getting in on the fun! 

Today was painting day. 

I wanted it to be finger paints, but neither Ethan or Rachel 

wanted to get their fingers that dirty {who's children are these anyway?!} 

so we got out the paint brushes and painted away. 

I enjoyed seeing what they each decided to paint. 

Rachel painted more letters than I thought she would.

Ethan did more pictures, which is what I would've pegged Rachel for. 

Kara was all about circles and what she told me was "the sun" and "stars". 

At one point I think she was trying to paint the moon, 

but got frustrated with its outcome and called it a banana :) 

finally! 

the day has come when Kara actually LOOKS at the camera, 

smiles and says "cheese!" 

Honestly, I thought we'd never get here. 

Ethan's was all about Creation. 

He told his sisters this story, while they painted. 

I was happy to hear that he has the story correct and in proper order. 

I remember the day when on the 5th day, God created the Jedi Knights and so forth... 

This was Ethan's idea. 

He asked me to to write the letters with a pencil, 

so they would be "great, like Moms write" 

- then he took the paint and traced over my writing