Craft Day!

Marie and Ava (11 months) are friends of ours who we met in Mommy & Baby Yoga back when Gwen was only 3 months old!  Yoga was cancelled during the summer months and even though we absolultely LOVED it, many of us chose not to continue in the fall, just because the babies have become too mobile - yoga doesn't work well when you're chasing down babies the entire time.  We're happy to have kept in touch and have regular playdates with Marie and Ava.

We had the girls over yesterday for a craft day that was mostly Halloween inspired.  We decided to have the girls finger paint pumpkins.  Sounds like fun, right?

Marie with Ava & Gwen painting pumpkins

Cue the crying.  Somebody was overtired.  Either that, or Reason # 23,985 she takes after daddy and hates getting dirty!  This picture breaks my heart and cracks me up at the same time.  Marie told me that Ava has always been empathetic, she gets so upset when other babies cry, and you can really see that in her face here:

Not sure if Gwen understood that the whole point of the project was to get the paint on her pumpkin, and not her hair.

Time to regroup.  I put Gwen down for a nap while Marie, Ava and I painted letters that I picked up for the girls' rooms at Michaels.

I think they came out pretty cute!  Ava's room has a bee theme, and Gwen's accent color is purple:

I found this project online and thought it was adorable!  While we were feeding the girls in the highchair, we were able to get their footprints on black construction paper, which we turned into spooky ghosts!!!

Footprint ghost framed on our living room console

Here are the girls in their Halloween inspired outfits, admiring all of their hard work:

They are so cute together, so loveable!  Look at their little feet in this picture <3 :)

Thanks for hanging out Marie and Ava!!