Bring on the art!

Today Valley came up to me and asked if she could paint her tower. It's a learning tower that John and I built for her for around $35. I'll post the instructions in another blog :). Since we're practicing saying "yes" as much as we can so when we say no it means no I said YES! I mean, why not? It's just boring white and the paint is washable. It's actually a pretty good idea and she can paint it again and again! Lyric was napping when she started but the tower is pretty big, and he woke up before she was done.

At first I tried to keep him away and just have him watch but it quickly became evident that he was not going to be satisfied by just watching. Which was fine with me, because I whole heartily believe that you should expose your children to fine arts as early as possible. I remember when Valley was 8 months old and we let her paint for the first time everyone thought we were nuts. But she loved it and loves painting to this day!



So I took his clothes off and let him have at it! He loved it, tasted it...I mean sure, an 8 month old painting is more work because they try to eat the paint. Nothing that a few million "it's not for eating" can't fix! Is it just me or does Lyric look just like Mario in this photo?





It's probably just me...too much Mario Galaxy 2 at night I guess.







And their finished products! I love Valleys tower now! and Lyrics first time painting was a success!