You want me to do what with that?

Ok, so now that I am watching Clanky and Momica's girls, the blog really REALLY has taken a back seat. We have been having a ton of fun and playing lots and lots.
Yesterday was one of those really fun days. It helped that Megan and Shaylee Bugs came over too. We pulled out the sugar cookie dough and frosting. The plan had been to make THanksgiving cookies, BUT no one still had any of their thanksgiving decorations out. So we just made lots of different colors of frosting and let them all have at it. I think they all had fun.
I do however wonder how children learn the phrase "I can't do it." so quickly. Gracie kept saying she couldn't spread the frosting, she couldn't put the sprinkles on, and she couldn't squeezed the tubes of decorating frosting. Only seh could and with encouragement she finally figured it out. This wasn't Javin or Shaylee's first time so they dug right in and had a blast. Livia was VERY hesitant to even touch the stuff. After Shaylee came over and started to take over her cookie, she finally decided that it would be OK to try.




After the cookie decorating (and eating) we pulled out the long forgotten finger paint and let them make so beautiful art pieces. That was quite funny to watch. None of the children had ever played with paint before and they were very resistant to put their hands in it. Well, the girls were anyway. Javin thought it was GREAT! Mommy let him, no encouraged him to get all messy. I think he thought he was in heaven. By the end of art time, he had paint EVERYWHERE! Grace hardly got messy at all, and was chomping at the bit to get all clean. Livia wasn't into the painting, or the cleaning, and Shaylee was loving the mess making, and only resisted the clean up a bit!
Fun was had by all, you know Megan and I just couldn't resist making our shared of mess!