Lately our pair of princesses have had a fascination with scissors. It started with valentines, but has moved on to cutting shapes out from stencils and coloring books, and then Princess D has moved on to drawing her own paper dolls and cutting them out. Grandma S gave us a set of scissors that all have different shaped edges last summer, and these have been the girls tools of choice. I have a curly haired paper D doll w/ curvy edges all around sitting on my desk right now.
Baby guy has also discovered the joy of art. He's too little for scissors, but has found deep satisfaction in learning how to scribble. He usually starts on paper, but right now prefers a larger canvass with a more vertical incline. He is especially partial to the color red, but today has discovered green. After all, some of our curtains are green. It matches.
All of this creativity has taken it's toll on our home. The floor of my back living room looks like we hosted a parade with extra confetti. Our vacuum has to be taken apart almost daily to clean out the paper clogs...the pieces that were too small to pick up easily, but when combined w/ the dirt from the floor make cement. I need to buy stock in Clorox Green Cleaner and Magic Erasers for all the wall cleaning I do each week.
Yes each week, not each day. Some days I just want to soak it all in. My bigger kids don't make these kinds of messes anymore, but they don't come to me with paper hearts cut out w/ bat wing edges either. Their world is not centered as much around mom as it is around school and friends. Our little kids will grow out of it soon too. The confetti on the floor is merely celebrating the joy of youth.
1 comment:
again with the positive outlook!
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