Friday, May 15, 2009

Creativity with Chloe and Halle

About a month or so ago, the girls and I decided to decorate lamp shades for their room. See, we recently rearranged their room (maybe pictures will follow in the next six months to a year), and instead of their beds being side by side, sharing a beside table and lamp, Halle's bed is in the back of the room and Chloe's is in the front. Ergo, separate bedside tables. Ergo, need for another lamp, and, heck, why not take this time to go all out?

So we did.

Halle's lampshade:




And, Chloe's lampshade:




Each girl designed her own lamp (what decorative paper cuts we would use, the top and bottom trimmings, vertical stripes or diagonal) and Chloe largely put together the flowers (with some help from Halle and me), and I did the sticking-to-the-shade. Also, Chloe's lamp is one my mom gave us that used to be green. It's a handy thing to randomly have white spray paint in your house.

Creativity with Noah

About a week ago I convinced Noah to play by himself in his room. He doesn't like to do this, but I think it's a valuable skill.

Plus, everyone else was busy.

This is what he did ALL BY HIMSELF:






Isn't that so great?!? (Proud mama? What? Who?)