An Evening With Mommy

Travis had class tonight, so Isaiah and I spent the evening together.  After this evenings class Travis only has class this coming Saturday and one more Monday and then he is DONE!  Our family can't wait for his Masters program to be finished and NO MORE HOMEWORK!

While Daddy was gone this evening Isaiah and I went for a walk with Aunt DeAnn.  While on our walk we delivered some of our recent surplus of garden tomatoes to Aunt DeAnn and Grammy and Grandad.  Have I mentioned that I LOVE having my family live close by to us!  Before leaving for our walk I asked Isaiah if he wanted to wear his new lion hat...I was thinking it was colder than it actually was, but non-the-less he wanted to wear it.  He loved showing off his new lion hat to the family.
 

On our way home from our walk we swung into Fred Meyer to get milk...something we go through like CRAZY and an orange (for an art project).  When we got home Isaiah and did a fun art project.  My friend Aimee (El.Ed. major from George Fox, and has a 2 year old also) recently blogged about doing an orange prints art project.  I liked the idea so I tried it out with Isaiah and he LOVED it.  The pictures totally prove that he had a great time!

 First: cut an orange in half...this is your stamp.

Second:  Pick paint colors that you want to use.  I am hoping to turn this orange print circles into pumpkins so I picked pumpkin/fall colors.

 

 Three:  Put the orange in the paint.  Mixing colors was accepted at our house.  Stamp the orange onto a piece of paper to make an orange print.

 

 

The project was a little messy.  What project with paint isn't messy?  At first when Isaiah got paint on his hands he asked to wash them...we used a paper towel to get the paint off.  But within seconds they were dirty again and he just accepted it.  In fact I found him wiping the paint on his hands onto his belly at one point.  It was good to see him embrace being messy to have fun!

I am hoping to turn some of these prints into pumpkins with Isaiah tomorrow after the paint drys.  I will keep you posted how part two of this project turns out.