Wednesday, July 27

Today we...

Painted for the first time.  First, we put on a smock.  It was a bit big--I think it was made for a preschooler.  Notice Jasper's "Mommy, are you serious?" look.

Then, we got down to the fun of actually painting.  Jasper really enjoyed the process.  He especially loved dipping the brush into the paint.

Later, Jasper learned to stomp his feet.  We were down in the basement, printing off shipping labels for Swaptree, and singing "If You're Happy and You Know It."  To my surprise, he stomped right along with me.  When we got upstairs, I took this video.  Warning--my voice is loud, and my singing, as always, is terrible.

After barely nibbling on his real lunch, Jasper chowed down on a big, juicy plum.  He ate right down to the pit.  Ah, summer.  We will miss the fruit dearly come winter.

After lunch, Jasper really wanted to play with the paint brushes again.  I let him play with them dry for a bit while I set up the next phase of our art project.  This part involved crumpling blue tissue paper and gluing it to the bottom of the painted blue paper to create 3-D "waves."  Crumpling was good fun.  Gluing was not Jasper's thing.  He liked pushing the pieces down, but then immediately wanted to remove them to do it again.  So, Jasper crumpled, and Mommy glued.

This is what the project looked like when we were finished for the day.  Tomorrow, we will glue some fishies into the water.  I just need to make them before craft time begins (don't think Jasper is quite ready to man the scissors yet).

After all that crafting, we took a nap.  Then, we went to Nashua to pick up Sabina and Milo's CSA share.  Sabina and Milo are away, vacationing on the West Coast.  We miss them, but we appreciated the veggies.  We got to talk about the bumpy summer squash, the yellow zucchini, and the stinky onions.  We met many nice CSA members, with whom Jasper was only too happy to chat.  Jasper didn't want to leave the pick up--it was so much fun!  But, we finally did get in the car to return home and wait for Daddy to arrive.  While we waited, Jasper ate some farm-fresh sliced cucumbers with dressing for dipping, and then waited at the window, saying, "Daddy soon!" 

That was our day.  How was yours?