Fingers for Brushes

Fingers for Brushes
Photo-A-Day #1416

For a little while now I’ve wanted to get some finger paints for Eva. They certainly have changed since I was a kid. When I was a kid there were 4 colors (Yellow, Red, Blue, Green) in little plastic containers. Now the Crayola finger paints are in little plastic tubes and come in 4 colors (Orange, Green, Purple, Teal). These are more like gels and when swirled together they do make colors like yellow and red. They are fascinating actually.

So we put Eva in an old t-shirt of mine and taped some paper to the dining room table. From there I squeezed out the 4 colors on the paper and let Eva have at it. She was tentative at first and then started playing around and having fun. It was a good little exercise in creativity. However she ended up ripping the paper and so we don’t really have a photo of what the final creation looked like. For now her scribbles and finger paints are for her to have fun and keep occupied. Eventually she’ll stop ripping the paper and we can take photos of her work.

This morning we went over to church to help set up for a bake sale. Allison is one of the people in charge of our Relay for Life team. Because of this she has different events planned to help raise money for the team’s donation. The bake sale was one of them and Allison made 5 loaves of banana bread. Let me tell you, I am glad that the bananas are finally out of the freezer. I kinda have an anti-banana thing. They did a great job raising money though and All of Allison’s bread was sold too and at the 1st Mass they made $200.00.

After Mass I caught up with Fr. Dave and gave him the copy of Combinations that I bought for the school (my old grade school) and the youth group (the one I started in High School). It was a signed copy too, thanks Ed Gerety!

Eva’s 1st Haircut

Eva's 1st Haircut
Photo-A-Day #1415

Today we had a major milestone in our life. Eva had her 1st haircut. She was really due for one and she was wonderful while she was getting it cut. We took her to our hair stylist and she did put Eva right at ease.

Allison was getting a cut right After Eva’s so we took separate cars so I could take Eva home after her cut. I got to the salon first and set up my cameras. Yes, I brought more than one. I had not one but two video cameras set up to record the event. Then I also had my DSLR with telephoto lens so I could stay far enough away so I didn’t distract Eva.

When got there she started by exploring the salon, she walked all around the place and waved to people in the chairs. We then sat her up on the chair so she could spin in the chair. You see, she love the office chair because it spins. We spin her slowly on the chair from time to time and she gets a huge kick out of it. So in an effort to put her at ease we spun her a few times in the chair before we did anything. After that it was up to Amanda to work her magic. Amanda was great with Eva.

We had a great morning and Eva came out with a very cute haircut. I took tons of photos and posted them to Flickr. Check them out.