A Lazy Weekend and a New Discovery

We've stayed around the house for the most part this weekend. It's been really nice to be lazy :) Friday evening our friends Chris and Becca dropped by for dinner with their precious three month old baby, Gabe. Here's a picture of him with Sara Paige. I love how she's already being a diva with her hand. It's like she's saying "Don't try anything, buddy!"

Last night we went out for sushi with my parents (oh, how I love you salmon sashimi). Kate loves miso soup and edamame. She calls edamame "popping beans" and the best part is obviously just that. Particularly, when a soybean projectiles across the restaurant onto another table. I'm sure the management loves to see us coming.

During dinner, Nana took Kate to the bathroom and taught her how to make streamers and do a happy dance with toilet paper. I wish I had a video. It was really funny.

We came back to our house after Starbucks and played Rock Band. Kate's favorite songs to drum and sing are Living on a Prayer, Heartbreaker, Jesse's Girl, Beat It, and The Joker. I like her taste.

This morning, Brad read a book on his Kindle and snuggled with Sara Paige:

While Kate and I painted with Crayola's Hassle Free Watercolors:

Okay, friends. Can I just tell you how much I love these watercolors? You don't need a cup of water that your kid is going to splash all over the floor in a matter of seconds. You dampen that white sponge, open up your paintbrush, glide it on the pad, dip it in the paint, and create away!

I am flying to New Mexico next Saturday by myself with the girls and think this will be a great activity for Kate to do in the air. She loves anything with paint and is a big fan of the Color Wonder line. The Color Wonder stuff is not cheap but the markers and paint last forever and clearly, there is no mess. I let her paint on the couch and don't have to worry.

When I bought the watercolors, I saw Crayola has a new Color Wonder glitter paper set with princesses.

Painting, princesses, AND glitter in one? Yippee! That's a product that screams Kate Garland. Here's hoping it's enough entertainment for the plane.

Comments

[katie]

Fun stuff! I'll have to check out the Color Wonders paint you mentioned. We do the markers at our house. The picture of Brad and Sara Paige looks like it came right out of a home living magazine! Picture perfect.

[Lisa]

I'm off to buy those watercolors! Grace would love it.

Oh and did I catch that you said you are flying by yourself with the girls to New Mexico. Let me know how that goes?!! Although I'm sure you will be just fine!