Painting, Pumpkins and Pottying

This is by far my favorite title on the blog so far. Yesterday was a big day. I didn't work, as is normal on Thursdays now and I was prepared for an active, stimulating, fun day with the kids. However, yesterday morning while changing diapers/pull-ups after waking up, something made me tell Cooper that today we were wearing Big Boy Underwear. He actually got excited, unlike the first time where he screamed and broke into tears, taking about 2 hours to finally calm down. So, Cooper wore his underwear all day yesterday, having only one accident after nap. For his efforts, he got a new race track for his Matchbox cars and is still playing with it. I'm sure he even dreamed about it. So, we were not going out yesterday...homebound we were, for sure!

We enjoyed painting, but the kids LOVED mixing all the colors and creating what looked like mud. So, sorry Aunt Kara, you didn't get any Christmas gifts made for you yesterday! ;)

Grammy and Cooper went on a field trip Wednesday with Cooper's class to the Maple Lane Farms pumpkin patch and brought home three pumpkins. So, we decided to paint two of them and somehow one of us got the idea that gluing feathers would be fantastic fun. And it actually was!

The evening ended with playing with Cody, as so many of these wonderful fall evenings lately have. Walmart has the BEST pumpkin decorations...no knives, no mess. Cody's pumpkins at his house have monsters and ours have animals. Our doorstep is officially the best looking one in the neighborhood (I ran my own survey!).

This was the first project, just a simple painting on canvas. However, notice my mistake in the lower right corner...leaving the paint where the kids could get their messy hands all over them!

The beginning of the pumpkin project. We started with watercolors and ended with a crazy amount of colorful feathers!

Cooper playing Peek-A-Book behind his Great Pumpkin!

Kendall was pretty proud of her work...but it's actually Cooper's! That's ok, I'll take a big smile anywhere I can get it!

The Treymont Three decorating their animal pumpkins. I think their pumpkin-decorating might be done for the season. Our doorstep can't hold anymore! We barely have room to walk as it is! However, our services are available at a nominal fee if anyone needs pigs, kitties, feathers, etc!