Crazy Love Gamble-Style

The girls love to paint, and in an effort to have them do more projects, I have to say yes to them when they ask... : )  I even saved the bottom part of some bok choy so they could use it as a stamp to make flowers with.  Fun! This little video cracks me up.  I love Norah's imagination right now, it is so fun to listen to all the ideas she comes up with.  Here she was telling me about how the tooth fairy comes and takes your teeth out.  Although she changed it when I asked her to repeat it....  There, she fixed it, no one will ever know...  Silly faces!!  Such funny little girls!!

These pictures are from last week but I don't want to forget to put them up.  Norah LOVES to paint.  Painting with friends?  Even better.  I give her a brush because that makes it less messy, RIGHT?? Yes, she is painting her hand.  Um, now what happened?  She looks equally perplexed.  But still happy.  She just remembered that making a mess is her favorite thing to do.  Now she is clapping paint covered hands together and laughing in a glee-like state where paint is flying EVERYWHERE.  Hopefully Audrey isn't taking notes.  And just in case she wasn't dirty enough...  Now I take off her shirt?  That's just smart parenting right there.  This is Norah's new robot, she loves it! Fighting over mommy Lauren, Norie adores her, we all do. Hey Jessica, do you now see why I was afraid of non-washable paint??   : )

 These girls ask to paint a lot, especially Norah.   I think she has some deep need to be super dirty or make a mess any way she can.   If it's not paint, it's food.   Every. Time.  I love watching them have fun.  Totally worth the mess.

 So Ava drew this giraffe.   She brought it to me in a stack of other drawings, much of them similar to ones I'd seen before.  I sent her into John's office to show him her artwork.  I didn't hear him respond at all, so I called out from the kids room, "Did you see the giraffe?  I love that one!"  (It's not that I thought it was some masterpiece, I was just happy to see her drawing something new)  John comes into the girls room holding Ava's drawing sideways and says....    "So mommy LOVES the giraffe huh??" Um yeah, we will be saving this one to give back to her at her wedding shower or some event where she will be able to appreciate the humor in it.  She says "Daddy says you should post this on Facebook!"  Then later asked if I did, I told her it had become quite popular on there.  : )

We wait until Norah is sleeping   for the real fun to start.  Poor Norah.

Sweet Little Ava, she looks innocent enough right? One day I thought, maybe I should let her play  with my makeup?  Why not?  It's sort of like an art project that she can totally direct herself. Needless to say she was thrilled at the prospect. I thought she did fairly well at her first attempt: Several weeks later she saw my makeup sitting on the  counter and asked "Mom can I??  Please??"   I agreed, and off she went, happy as a clam.   Somehow I totally underestimated what *might* happen. How bad could it be?? Um, WOW.  Even when she smiles nice... She looks totally insane & yet so very proud of herself. That definitely wasn't how I saw that going. Kids sure do know how to keep things interesting! Just imagine how long it took to get OFF her face... : )

I used to be accused of not letting Ava do anything that was messy. I still sort of struggle with that but... I think I may be getting slightly more relaxed about it.