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And here’s why I have a hard time with some Fun Mom™ stuff.

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The kids were getting on each others nerves so I got out a unicorn painting kit for after lunch, thinking that would take up a good hour, right? They both saw it and were super excited, and asked me every three minutes if it was time yet.

So after the rigamarole of finally getting everything out and ready and set up, Owen paints for like 5 minutes then says he’s done and he’ll paint later or tomorrow. NO. NO NO NO. Then Katie decides she’ll paint later today, too. NO. NO NO NO!! 😡 This is the project for RIGHT NOW. That you wouldn’t stop asking me about.

So now I have a table of half painted unicorns and their associated mess. 🤦🏻‍♀️

So is this a Fun Mom™ win or fail?

The Buddy Project

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Works by young artists and even younger artists were on display during the Buddy Project portion of the Live Arts event held Friday at Warren Township High School’s Almond Campus. Woodland Elementary East had 72 students participate in the event where they drew somebody or something helping someone. Selected drawings were given to high school art students to recreate using drawing, painting, digital image or sculpture. Not only were the works side-by-side but the artists were able to meet one another for the first time and high school artists give their art work to their younger counterparts.

Katie’s superhero drawing was selected so we all went to see the display!

Parenting struggle #3,471:

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Katie decided it would be a great idea to empty the entire 64-crayon box into another box so she could use the individual inner crayon boxes for some game she created with her jewelry. Seriously?

I love that she’s creative but things like this make me insane. I know I shouldn’t care because it’s just a damn crayon box but I just know the boxes will likely get ruined (never put away), the crayons will never go back in their original boxes, and the crayons will likely end up all over the house, broken and lost, because nothing ever gets put away because KIDS.

And now I’m feeling guilty that I’ve stifled her creativity over a $4 box of crayons. Ugh.

Owen’s amazing Pokémon evolutions.

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Owen really is amazing when it comes to creating Pokémon and evolutions. Today he was making a birthday card for his friend and wasn’t sure what to draw so we told him to draw some Pokémon. We thought he’d just draw a common Pokémon, but he came up with two new Pokémon, complete with two evolutions each, for a total of six new Pokémon (he did one for the birthday boy and one for his sister, just because). He just blows me away.

Pysanky Katie & Hatty Owen

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Katie wanted Gramma Jean to do Pysanky on her face and Katie REALLY wanted to paint Owen’s face so he reluctantly let her paint Hatty Hattington on him (hilariously yet steadfastly refusing both glitter and sparkles).

And since I had no idea what Hatty Hattington looked like, either… I guess she did okay. 🙂

The kids both got glowing reviews!

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Parent teacher conferences were tonight and both teachers had glowing things to say about the kids! Katie’s teacher was surprised that she balks at reading and doing math homework because she does awesome in class. Owen’s teacher said he really could not be doing better. We are so proud of them!!

The veterans thank you wall at Katie’s school.

And at Owen’s school:

And some of Owen’s work hanging in the hallway (maybe my favorite part of conferences).

And from Katie’s meeting:

I like the sound of the air because it sounds cool. I had pumpkin donuts at the pumpkin patch. I bought pumpkins at a pumpkin patch.

Whoever came up with slime needs to be shot.

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Whoever came up with slime needs to be shot. 🔫 Whoever came up with GLITTER slime needs to be burned at the stake. 🔥

I told the kids we’d do it once. On a rainy day. And I already regret it. I’ve told them it’s going in the garbage in a few days. IT JUST STICKS TO EVERYTHING. How are you supposed to play with it without it getting all over every damn thing?! (I thought if you kneaded it more it would become less sticky. Nope. It doesn’t even come off your hands nicely when you wash them. #neveragain

Note: Just so you don’t think I’m a horrible parent, I did get some troubleshooting advice from friends… And it helped, but I’m still never making it again. A 5yo plays with it much differently than I touch it, and it still gets ALL over and is too sticky. I just don’t have the patience. Plus she plays with it for about 45 seconds and she’s done.

https://youtu.be/H1BKizRt0hA

Owen’s first concert performance!

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The entire third grade class presented a concert tonight. (This is actually only half the students—the other half went an hour earlier!) They sang a few songs together and then each class sang their own song while playing instruments. It was much of what you’d expect a third grade concert to be but they all looked like they were having fun and were proud of themselves. 🙂

After the concert we wanted to find Owen’s self-portrait (all the third-graders had done them and they were lining the gym). Owen had to point it out—I don’t think I ever wood have found it on my own. 🙂

Katie’s little love notes take a strange turn.

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So Katie is still getting little love notes from Thomas on the bus. This one came yesterday with her saying he wanted a playdate. Fine, right? Look at the text. Do you see what I see?

❤️ Hey baby how do you make Katie get back together with me

😂 but also 😳, right?

Even though it’s coming from a Kindergartener it seems somewhat concerning. I emailed both teachers (he’s not in her class) just to sort of give them an FYI/heads up and to see if they’ve noticed anything weird. Katie’s teacher responded that they’d talk to them (I haven’t heard back yet if it’s happened).

Oh the teen years are going to be a joy…