so much painting, so much laughter...

i bought a bunch of washable paint....

i have been worrying about our first painting session inside the RV.... these kids get wild and it can go from painting heaven to full on chaos in seconds.


well, the paint is amazing.... it came off of

 the ceiling

and my clothes   and the walls, and the cabinets


and daddy's new coat.....


it was great.


worry free painting.




and really pretty colors- for being washable paint....




ira's upside down peace sign heart...







this was emer's first painting session where he wasn't trying to just eat the paint or rub the paint all over himself....



i NEEDED this night.



the kids NEEDED this night.



we NEEDED to get messy


and create

and cover the walls

and cabinets

 and ourselves in....



                                                                       C O L O R







our souls were fed.



then we broke out the jewels!






and the new colored pencils.....



before i went to nursing school, i always wanted to work in Art Therapy.


Specifically, I wanted to go into hospitals, cancer treatment facilities and homes of the terminally ill and facilitate the creation of art through their own hands, feet, etc.

Since having kids, i have always felt it was really important to open up the bottles and let them free flow with all the mediums and without confines and without worries of mess.




Unfortunately, this RV *is* small enough that it has caused me to hesitate when it came to painting...

i was worried about MESS.


ME!!!!!


anyone that has even been to my house in tucson would be shocked.

we used to write on the walls with chalk, pens, paint, whatever.

at any random time there were bound to be

drying papier mache dragons,


    or a half dozen half painted painted canvas
   

                   500 smashed crayons all over the floor, (or melting in the oven.....)

             



or, lets be real, children ACTIVELY painting ON the floor while i baked something.



going from OWNING a house to renting an apartment- well, it broke me a little.

i keep forgetting-



THIS IS OUR RV!!!!!!!!!!!




so, im embracing my old messy artist self.... and trying to release the last year of "don't do that. don't do this. this isn't our house!'









and in other, more hilarious news- after cleaning up the kids, emers walked passed me knitting and said "bye!"


i look up to see this:



         



he wanted to go outside- in his underwear- at 9p.m.  in 40degree weather....




we got him a little more protected and off him and his daddy went.


he is getting so big!!!!!






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St Patricks Day

We read about St Patrick and driving out the snakes. Found some great info online about the pagan significance.





I received a coupon for a free spa visit for St Patricks day. Went and had my hair "fancied up"



Magnets...



Lemonade making....



The doctor is IN....



Liv was bandaging up rapunzels hurt foot...







Ira was checking my reflexes...

WIP Wednesday

we are in the process of making spring art for the nature table and the walls....

this is a piece of carboard from an old pad of paper that the kids painted and we glued scraps of paper to....

when we went outside to take a picture, the kids acted like they hadn't been outdoors in about a year!

PLANE! PLANE!


liv begging me to get out the sidewalk chalk!





duck! plane! water! ahhhhhhh



gosh, he is getting so so big!




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Sick days....

We are still sick! Stuffy noses and coughs.

Didn't stop us though.... Here is Ira and our cornstarch science experiment....





Then, while the kids were eating strawberries, Ira said "would YOU like a strawberry?" o said no, that I like strawberries, but the seeds always get stuck in my teeth. She said, "do you miss eating them?" I said sometimes.


She disappeared for a bit and returned with this- she had used a plastic Ikea knife to cut off the seeds for me! Made me cry. She is so sweet!


Emers and liv think so too.





Queen Ira!


Superhero luv to the rescue? No.


Hero liv destroyed the hedgehog, his home and the robot city. And the monchichi.


Emers stealing from the dollhouse...


Puppet shows...





And sweet sister cuddles...


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Sunday

After feeling sick for a few days, the little ones got rowdy today!

This is the first time they played together for this long without Ira orchestrating. Emers is really getting old!














"what mama? I can't rip all these things down?"





Ira is still sick... She laid around and watched movies. Then came out and worked 18 pages in her phonics book and a couple pages in "explode the code".

She is really reading now. Sounding out words and figuring it all out. So cool to watch.


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Sneezes

We have been sick. :( Chilling out at home feeling under the weather.

Liv drew endless pictures on the whiteboard for her pen pal "ijah!"


Treasure chest building... They cut gold coins and emeralds from construction paper. You can tell they feel sick because they kept fighting over ev.er.y.thing. They never do that.


Watched baby snakes hatch...


The queens throne...