Continuing on with our new little tradition, Holly did a 3 year-old painting. She used a fine paint brush and was really intent on gettng the little details just right. She takes a lot of pride in her art work. I see a skull when I look at this one, which is kind of cool. And a little embaressing that that's all I see when I look at it. But I love it. I'm happy to have a little skull painting in my home. Obviously Holly made it abstract and didn't intentionally paint a skull, so I'm not worried about her mental state. She's into circles, small details and zig-zagging (or writing words in her mind). Love, love, love having my girl paint! I can't wait to see what the future years will bring us. Oh, one more thing, Holly is still so proud of her 2 year-old painting. I love the boost of confidence displaying her art gives her.

We picked up a tool box building kit at the garlic festival in Gilroy and Conor and Holly built it together and then I helped Holly slather it with purple. And then Holly topped it off with stickers, because tacky and 3-year old are one in the same. It was really cute to watch Holly and Conor work on a little project together. She liked helping with the hammer, but then after a few tries, she prefered to relax and let Conor build it. My kind of girl.

Holly and I did a little experiment. What happens if we mix a red ice cube into blue water? We made sure to record our findings on paper. I'm not entirely sure that Holly fully understood that mixing red and blue makes purple, but she loved stirring with the spoon and watching the color change. And she liked coloring my crude drawings. Once we had made purple, orange, green and pink by popular demand, we had leftover dyed ice cubes. So we just kept going and were much less formal about it. I loved this activity! The materials we used were large mason jars, spoons, ice cube tray and food dye. Really basic.

Idea originally found on the Mother Huddle.

I can't say bedtime is my favorite part of the day. I'm tired, the girls are tired. I'm trying to enjoy it more by making it fun (laughter is amazing) or really "seeing" my girls. Greta loves to be wrapped up in blankets. It's the cutest thing. And if I'm going to take a picture of Greta, then Holly definitely wants one of her. I love my girls!