Paintin' Pumpkins

Remember I told you that we let the kids each pick out a pumpkin to take home to paint? Well, we painted them this past Thursday. It worked out well, because we were able to do it during the time that dinner was cooking in the oven.

Instead of going out and buying special paint or paint brushes, I just let them use the fingerpaint that we already had. They've used the fingerpaint a few times before, but only on paper. I thought the mess was bad before, but this time it was a lot worse!

The finished product... Aiden's is on the left, and Jenny's is on the right.

*Please pay no attention to the quality of these pictures. My camera battery was dead, so I had to use my BlackBerry.

Finger Painting

Yesterday while Jaime and I were out running a few errends, we stopped at the store to pick up a few things. One of the things we picked up....

FINGERPAINT!

Aiden had been running a fever on and off all day, so this was a great activity for him that he could do at home. I have been trying to come up with some activities that he and I could do during the day when Jenny is at school or on the weeks when she is with her mom, and a lot of friends reccomended fingerpaint.

At first he really wasn't too sure what to do with it. He liked to point at the different colors so that I would tell him what color it was. One of my favorite things about Aiden is his desire to always be learning new things, and I think activities like these are only going to help him with that.

Finally, after some help from his Dad, Aiden figured out exactly what we were waiting for him to do.

Things were going great until he realized just how messy his hands were getting. He is not one who likes for their hands to be messy, especially when we won't let him clean them off right away. Ha!

Things got worse once he touched his face and got paint on it too. He was not very happy with us in this picture, as you can see from his facial expression.

This was when he announced to us that he was done with the fingerpainting. Obviously he was upset with the mess he had made all over his hands, face, and body.

After he told us that he was done he went straight to the bath tub and started to take off his diaper. Ha! He was ready for a bath!!

Aiden's masterpiece!