Paint!

I tried to get a good picture of Ava's hands with little luck. Last night after Violet was asleep I found her in a puddle of dark purple nail polish painting her hands and her toes. It came out of the carpet with little success. The next day she wanted to "paint" some more. My suggestion to any parent is to never let their child paint because they will never want to stop. At our Monday playgroup Ava gets to paint and loves it. She made two ornaments for the tree out of home made puffy paint. The recipe is as follows: Equal parts of flour, water, salt, and then add a little tempra paint for color. She now enjoys trying to eat the dry paint. Ava also knows where the stamp pads are. I thought a stamp pad would be better than using actual paint, so I let her play while I folded laundry. I came back and her hands and lips were covered in black and purple paint. Her poor baby dolls suffered a similar fate of purple and black faces.

I'm glad Violet doesn't do much yet. She isn't eating solids yet probably for this precise reason - less mess!!