Busy Saturday

Since Travis was unavailable all day on Saturday (he had church meetings in the morning, and work- including interviewing a potential new post-doc for his boss' lab), I knew that I couldn't just sit around the house all day.

After getting some "chores" done, we loaded up our lunch boxes and headed for the library. Yup, our local library now has a little "snack" area where you can eat food. It's awesome- especially for winter picnics! While at the library, we checked out a museum pass. For you locals, if you haven't done this already, you can get into a number of the South Bend Museums for FREE (up to 6 people) just by checking out this pass from the main branch (downtown) library. We decided to check out the Mastadon and Mammoth exhibit at the Northern Indiana History Museum.

They had some cool bones, but I think the things the girls enjoyed the most were digging for fossils and playing in the basement area- they have an old town set up (wagon, trade store, tepee, canoe, etc.)

When we came home we all took "rest time". Megan was the only one who didn't sleep. But I think the novelty of getting to lay in her sleeping bag was too exciting for her. I guess Zoë was just tuckered!

When the girls got up, we did some window painting. Now, as for an activity, the girls LOVED it! I was a little surprised they went more with an abstract aspect as opposed to an actual picture, but all 3 loved the novelty and the colors and designs they came up with. I got the idea for homemade window paints out of my Family Fun magazine. It said to outline everything in black, but I thought painting was enough. YES, it was MESSY! I had a towel on the floor, and the girls wore a paint shirt. Miranda was lovin' the idea so much that I let her paint a little bit on one window- but I should've picked a color other than RED. Since I'm not particularly thrilled with the idea of pink windowsills in my green living room, I got her to paint at the table with watercolors instead. She enjoyed spilling the water everywhere, but also getting some paint on the paper, too.

After Megan finished her window, which she titled "Blue Island in the Sky", she wanted to paint with watercolors with Miranda. She loves black, and most of the rest of her picture was covered. Although, Megan discovered what happens when you color with crayon first on your paper and then watercolor on top. She was pretty excited about that.

Zoë was the last to paint (she woke up later from her nap on the floor in her sleeping bag). Miranda wanted to "help" so I had to keep her corralled away from the paints, the window, the brushes, and her big sister. Zoë named her finished piece (when it was only half done), "The Mix".












































































The clean-up wasn't too horrible, but my sink still looks like a leprechaun painted it...