Painting Pumpkins

A princess in a pink princess dress with a jeweled crown.
A castle for the pretty pink princess.
And three ghosts:)
A spooky haunted house complete with a flying ghost and two black bats.
A pirate ship also complete with a sword carrying pirate. Henry picked the colors.
And a happy jack-o-lantern face:)



We had to toss our two big pumpkins, so they won't be glowing on Halloween night:( But, we still have three small baby pumpkins and yesterday, Henry asked if we could carve the little ones. Well, since our large pumpkins didn't last long after we carved them, I opted for painting the baby pumpkins. So after the dreaded homework(I'll write about that soon too), we sat down and started to paint. Emma painted hers herself and then asked if I'd paint it instead. The whole time she said that she was a better artist. I reassured Henry that he was also a great artist. Henry helped paint his, but I ended up painting his as well. He told me what he wanted and picked out pictures to use as a reference and also picked the colors. And then Emma did the same. So here's what we did yesterday afternoon.

More Painting

A race car for Henry.
Emma's forth castle.
Bone Shaker-a Monster Truck.
El Torro Loco-another Monster truck.
Henry requested a really big eagle. He held open his arms and stretched and said, "I want it this big Mommy." I couldn't make it as big as he wanted because we are running out of space.
He also requested a pond with the following items swimming in it-2 fish, a turtle, a shark, and an alligator. And I had to make sure that you could see the teeth on both the shark and the alligator. He was very specific about that;)
Castle number three for Emma. I'm trying to make each one a little different.
Castle number two for Emma.

You Paint, Then I Paint

Sunday after we had finished lunch and finished working on our homemade books, we decided to paint in the kids' room. Sunday's in the Fall are football days so I try to keep the kiddos occupied so that Daddy can enjoy his game(s). So we spent a couple of hours Sunday afternoon painting together. I painted some and they painted some. The only downside...we are running out of wall space.

Monster Mutt and Blue Thunder monster trucks from Henry's collection.
Henry's biiig dragon complete with dragon rider.
Emma's E and M-this may become her signature one day when she is famous:)
Emma worked on jazzing up one of the butterflies I did a long time ago.
Dora and her pink chariot.
A second princess/fairy doll for Miss Emma.
Every princess needs a pony or ponies preferably in different colors and with flowers.

Another Henry dragon-we've been experimenting with mixing colors and he really took to the skin tone color.
The artist admiring his own work-three smaller dragons.
Grave Digger monster truck. This was the first one I painted for him on Sunday, the other two I did yesterday.

Growing Imaginations

Getting in a little tickle time before bedtime.
Henry and Emma snuggling up together.
Henry making a crab man out of Play Dough.
Emma painting toys and the inside of a bowl.
Henry in the process of making a giant ant.

Emma's sunshine made out of Tinker Toys.

I have really enjoyed watching Henry and Emma these last few weeks and seeing how their little minds work. I should rephrase that last part or maybe all of it. I always enjoy watching the kids learn and discover things and their minds are far from small. Even before they turned the magical age of four their imaginations ran wild. Now it's more new things every day. They are like miniature vacuum cleaners-sucking it all in. This past week has been filled with lots of "art" type play. We've done lots of painting, playing with Play Dough, tent making, and playing with Tinker Toys. And they have both finally started doing more and more of the creating themselves instead of asking me to do it. It makes me kind of happy and sad at the same time because they grow more and more independent every day and I sometimes miss the, "momma, can you help me?"So here's a few of our two little artists.

The many things we do...

Henry and Emma said that they would cook dinner the other night so this is what we had.




Painting dinosaurs and waterfalls in their room. We're quickly running out of lower wall space.




Two little monkeys jumpin' on the couch:)





Emma all bundled up playing trains with Henry and Mommy. I asked her if the blanket had swallowed her and this was her answer, "No Mommy, here I am...seeeeeee!"




One of the three things our big boy loves...Trains.




Emma built a tower with a "garden" on top. Note the flower on the very top of the tower.



"Look Momma, I built a tower."
The beaded necklaces drapped over the tower are a waterfall.


Disco dancing with Uncle Philip--sooo funny and sooo cute!



Playing dress up or just making a BIG mess? Making a BIG mess and having a blast doing it!