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New piggy banks

Eve’s piggy bank sprang a leak last week (“Some of us are carrying over six dollars in change here!”) and so we finally got around to making new banks yesterday.  I had visions of fancy drawings on each side, but they did their own thing.  Lex decided to draw on the paper sideways (from what I had intended) and therefore lots of the underlying tissue box is showing.  Eve decided that glue was her friend, so I snipped up lots of little shapes and she went to town.  They both had a blast making the projects and moving the money from the sad old piggies to the fresh new boxes.  Lex counted his change and proudly announced that he has 65 coins!  That made me laugh because he lost is place several times and started over, so he really has way more than 65, but he was super proud of that number :)

New "piggy" banks (should I call them "tissue box banks"?)

Train

As I said in a previous post, Lex has been on a drawing mission lately.  He spends lots of time at the table drawing colors.  I started asking him if he could draw actual things, like trees and trains, and he went to work.  Last night’s drawing was a train.  Why I’m writing about it is because I’m impressed with the elements he starts with.  The first picture here is his first attempt.  He drew the track, then the smoke, then the wheels, and when he started to draw the train he decided there wasn’t enough room.  So he flipped the page over and tried again, this time without the track, still drawing the smoke first, then the wheels, and then the train.  Isn’t that an interesting way to draw?  Always adding his name at the end :)

Train tracks, by Lex, minus the train

A train, by Lex, minus tracks

Gobble, gobble

November FINALLY arrived and I FINALLY let him do the foam turkey project that I bought at the store many months ago.  He was very excited, but it turned out to be a pretty lame project.  You have to glue all of those “feathers” to the back of the round ball (the body) and of course they didn’t stay there.  The Elmer’s glue we have just smeared down and the feathers kept falling, as the ball slid in the glue underneath it and within moments we were all covered in glue.  Mommy to the rescue though!  I pulled out a box of sewing pins (which were fresh in my mind because I had only just yesterday wowed the kids with my amazing button-sewing-on skills!).  We glued the pieces together and then I stuck a few pins in to hold everything in place.  Eve LOVED the pins and was thrilled that I let her play with them.  We’re living dangerously here!  While Lex and I glued the feathers, she took the poor turkey’s head and filled it with sewing pins :)

Eve, putting sewing pins in a foam turkey head :)

Lex and the finished turkey. He was so happy :)

And then…
Then we moved on to painting…

A lovely fall painting

and beading…

Lex wrote me a message on his necklace. I was happy :)

with a little love note from mommy to finish off our crafty morning.

So I wrote him a (not so) secret love note and folded it up very small. He was happy. :)