Day 151 and 152 Update #2

Day 151:  Home Depot Day

I love the first Saturday of the month now!  It is so nice to be able to go somewhere and get the kids so involved in working with their hands, and best of all, it is FREE!  No admission, no parking, no supply fees, nothing, go in, get a bag of parts, and let your kids go at it.  It is a special time for the kids and for us as parents.  We are getting to know the HD employees and they are getting to know the girls.

This month, the girls got to make lawnmowers.  They were super simple, just glue/nail a small wood block on top of a big block, add the tires which we realized after would have been better served have been put on AFTER painting, and then glue the handle into place.

Penny's painting is coming along VERY nicely, even from 2 months ago.  Iris' use of tools is improving, Mike only almost lost 1 finger while helping her!

Day 152: Fairies in a Jar

Ok, so, this is a craft idea my aunt sent me a few weeks/months ago (https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/530071_313660888760370_1776018872_n.jpg).  I thought it was super cute, and really wanted to try it, but then, as I thought about it, i couldn't figure out how it would work... The "Glow stick" is actually liquid... glitter is small and turns more into paste when it gets wet.  Now, i will admit, i have no idea what "diamond" glitter is, so maybe we used the wrong thing (i did use the biggest glitter i could find though!), but it definitely didn't "twinkle" it just coated the entire jar with a layer of stuck on glitter.  However, it glowed like nothing else!  Then, Iris' jar didn't have an water tight lid, so it ended up starting to leak... we noticed after she put it on her head.. thus the picture with a streak lol.   Oh well, they glowed like crazy, and the girls had a lot of fun.  In the end, that is all that really matters... but fairies in a jar, sort of a flop :/

Ok, so, Mike did some snooping, and this is what he found on CraftFail.com... http://craftfail.com/2013/03/fairy-jar-fake-out/  Check out how much better ours looks than the one there, I don't feel like such a miserable failure now.  I had a feeling this one was going to flop miserably.  I have to say, FB, you are 0 in 2 now!!

(Glowstick in Iris' hair and Iris' hand print on the wall... there is also some on the carpet..)