Creative Kids

Bobby made this Nativity Scene with the Kinex pieces.

Judah made Mickey Mouse with the Kinex.

The week before the big snow, Genevieve had her art show at school.  Bob was her subject for this piece so we took a picture of them both in front of it. 

And I forgot to include this picture that we took of the girls' basketball team after their last home game of the year.

 

Winter Storm in Texas

I really didn't believe it would be much accumulation, but we got around 6 inches!  This was our covered porch in the morning of Monday.

 

The boys wanted to hurry up and get out there, but it was 8 degrees in the morning so they didn't last very long and just came in after wiping out on ice a few times each, soaking wet and freezing cold.  Daddy told them he'd take them out to the back of our neighborhood to try out sledding after lunch when it was supposed to be in the twenties.  Hannah, of course, didn't really go out.  She stood on the porch and looked at it.  All our snow gear, boots and suits, are in the back of our tricky attic so we just made do with what we had, doubling up on as many layers as we could.  There were the typical tears about wearing multiple layers from Mini-Male-Hannah.

This guy was happy to get all puffy!

After their fun in the snow the older five kids watched Star Wars with Dad.  

Right before this storm hit, we got this indoor basketball goal from my sister.  It was just in time because we are looking at several snow days here, completely snowed in, and it's another outlet for energy.

Now our game room is truly Boy Paradise, complete with Legos, fooseball, and basketball.

Charmed, I'm Sure!

 Bobby is already using his youngest child charm to get things done around here, but I'm onto him.  After being told he needed to get ready for his bath.  He says, with his voice dripping with sugar, "Mommy, you are so good at picking out my clothes and always pick the coziest pajamas.  So can you go upstairs and get my clothes for me?"  I was charmed, but not fooled this time.  What a sweetie though!

Another funny story about Bob happened when he was learning place value in Math.  I was explaining how to tell how many tens and ones there are in a two digit number.  After explaining it once, the next number in his lesson was 11.  I laid out the manipulatives.  When I asked how many tens there are in the number 11 he said, "None."  I told him there was one ten in the number 11.  Then I asked how many ones were in the same number.  He answers two and it took me a second to see where the problem was.  There are two "1's" in the number 11!  I don't know how that's never happened before.  This is the sixth time I've explained this.  Maybe we never chose the number 11 as an example early on.  

This is where we frequently do our Morning Time for school.  Brian is still working from home; he came downstairs for lunch and caught this scene on camera.

Because Art is What We Do Around Here

Really, it's the main way that we pass our time these days.  Our breakfast table has become a painting center.  I ended up buying a craft cart with drawers so it all can be put away quickly and easily.  The girls come up with new projects all the time and Drew is just as crazy about painting as they are.  

This full set of PJ Mask characters, I made for my nephew as a Christmas gift..  

Drew painted these with minimal instruction.  The glare on the apple isn't from the camera.  He's getting really good.  He is definitely a perfectionist and will redo things many times if he's not satisfied with them.

The girls found this idea of stripping and painting old CDs.  These are Genevieve's.

More of Genevieve's

Hannah's CDs

Hannah's CDs Again

There have been many baby's announcements lately.  I made two so far and am already in the middle of the third, and I still won't be finished with baby gifts!

What a cute model!

I embroidered one of them.

I loved this llama pattern, perfect for a surprise gender!

Hannah received a box of miniature canvases.  She got right to work.

I requested that Genna do some of her ombre colors on these difficult to paint shells, and they turned out beautiful!

This angel rock, I painted for my mother's collection.

I painted these two when I had the idea to do each of our patron saints on a shell.  It wasn't easy.  I haven't started anymore yet though; too busy sewing.

The I added some peg doll saints to my Etsy shop, CaeliEtTerraCrafts and the St. Brigid dolls already sold out.

St. Brigid

St. Gertrude, patron of cats and gardeners

St. Josephine Bakhita with Our Lady of Sorrows medal around her neck

I also put up St. Alban up on my shop, as well as my Divine Mercy image, and my peacock drawing.  I am currently working on a drawing of St. Joseph since this year has been dedicated to him.  I also have in the planning stages a set of famous black women peg dolls.  Busy, busy!