Art From The Heart and Kids Country

This morning we went to Art From The Heart with the PTA. We arrived a little early so we waited in the car for a few minutes. Nicholas was excited and since he was still buckled in his car seat I was able to catch a close up picture of him (he's always moving so quickly that these are hard to capture).



When we went inside we were impressed to find everything already set up for us. Each child had a 6'x 6' tile to do their artwork on. Nicholas painted his background with light blue, yellow, and green. Then he used a dark blue paint to make his hand print. The store will glaze and fire it and we'll pick it up next week. It was a fun project.





Next we had a picnic lunch at Kids Castle park in Coppell. Nicholas played with his friends from the PTA but also met some new friends that he played with as if he had known them for years. He has no problem at all making new friends in an instant.





We went home and Nicholas helped me water some of the plants...and he watered a lot of the decorative rocks too. He's very thorough!





Nicholas decided that it was my turn to water the plants so I took the hose and he took the camera. He has his own Kids Tough camera by Fisher Price which he uses a lot so he's gotten pretty good at taking pictures. (By the way, I highly recommend this camera!) Look at this one he took with my Nikon camera!



Of course, there is always a foot picture or two in every photo shoot...



We explored the front yard some and overturned some bricks to see what we could find. Nicholas found some cool bugs but also another little lizard. We have tons of these around the yard.



We found some little slugs and then the last brick we overturned we found an ant egg chamber. We watched as all the little ants picked up the eggs that were as big or bigger than they were and followed them as they carried the eggs away to safety. They are so fascinating to watch!

When we came in I gave Nicholas a bath. We were playing "Rescue Heroes" and using some of his sea creatures as rescuers of other sea creatures that were in trouble. I gave him a five minute warning that it was almost time to get out of the bath tub. When the five minutes were up I said it was time to get out. He said, "Well, I wanted to do five more rescues and we've only finished one of them." He held up five fingers then put down one of them and said, "That means we still have to do (counting remaining fingers now) one, two, three, four more rescues." I was tired of playing but proud of him for his subtraction skills so we played four more rescue scenarios (quickly) before I made him get out of the tub. He loves the bath tub. He could stay in there with his toys all day long.