Hello....Paintbrushes!!!

Today Mommy and Emily had a nice relaxing day at home! I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing that every morning when Emily wakes up she says, "Where are we going?" So, today we had the day "off". We had quit an eventful day! It started off outside at 8:20 in the morning trying to see Daddy's plane land - which we realized we missed when Charles called to say he was here and we were still outside :). Then we fixed bacon and eggs for breakfast and Emily discovered that she likes fresh raspberries. Then we read the ENTIRE book of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes! Then the queen showed up for a visit. Still not sure exactly where the queen came from or who she is, but she apparently was here all day and had to have her own piece of PB&J sandwich for lunch! Then we played beauty shop and fixed each others hair. Then we painted - the point of the whole post, which I elaborate on below! Then we had lunch, read some more Nursery Rhymes and took naps....woo hoo :) Oh yeah, and we fixed dinner in the crock pot all day!

So onto the point of the post (I am sorry, this is looking like an Aunt Vicky Post :) So for about the last year and a half, ever since Emily discovered the art of painting, it has been a big hassle and MESS for her to paint. We had to strip her naked, strap her into her booster seat, watch as she finger/hand painted the paper, the table, herself, the booster seat, etc., run her to the shower and hose her off as soon as she was done! Then her painting would turn into a big brown mess because she would just mix all the colors together on her paper! Needless to say she loved to paint and I hated for her to paint because I knew the mess it would turn into; therefore I very rarely let her paint!

That is until now.....someone invented paintbrushes for this very reason!!!!!! Why it has taken me a year and a half to think to buy paintbrushes at Wal-Mart (to which we have gone EVERY week of the last year and a half) I have no clue! But this week at Wal-Mart I actually remembered to buy Emily some paintbrushes and today we had our first experience with them!

Emily loved them, I loved them, everyone was happy :) It is still a bit more messy than her Color Wonder Markers (thank you to Aunt Vicky and Uncle Jeremy) but not nearly as messy as finger/hand painting! Also, her picture turned out very colorful and bright and cheery :) And she also got the hang of switching paintbrushes for each color very quickly.

So, I thought i'd share some pics of her creating her first paintbrushed masterpiece! She has already told me that one is for her bedroom door, one for her bathroom door and one to take to Daddy at work....in that order :) Enjoy!

Painting so nice and clean!

"Hi Mommy!"

Her 3 finished Masterpieces - so nice and colorful!!!
A "brown" sample from a previous finger/hand painting!