I babysat this afternoon for a friend and neighbor. A five year old (didn’t make the kindergarten cut off) girl and her two and a half year old little brother. Normally when I babysit for this family, it’s in the evening when the little dude is already sleeping and his big sister and I play for a bit before her bedtime. But today it was full on fun!
Big sis, M, and I took advantage of our unseasonably warm weather and took paints and paper onto the table on the back porch.
This is my favorite of M’s paintings. First, she painted her mom, “Miss Robynbird, what color pants was Mommy wearing?” (She was wearing jeans.) Then she added herself with a “tropical bird” on her shoulder.
My painting is more self-explanatory.
I absolutely adore my tree, but the pressies…meh. I’m not an artist like that, but I love to play with color.
Little brother, B woke up and we had a snack. Then we played. It’s been a loooooooong time since I rolled around on the floor “roughhousing” with small children. When B accidentally head butted me we changed the nature of our play. My head is hurting a little this evening, but it was worth it. I miss spending my days with small people.
Then I came home and the boys and I had breakfast for dinner!
It was a pretty great Robynbird day.
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I like your painting and would take it yo our local educational store and laminate it! 🙂 You can post it every year.
Aww, thank you, Robin!
YBW asked me to hang it on the fridge. I do think it needs to be laminated because it curls up on the edges.