Paints

 Summer needs to end already. I'm running out of fun ideas

for the kids to do to keep them unbored and not fighting. 

I'm all for the free play and promoting self-soothing and letting

them use their imaginations but by the 604th complaint that

Charlie is, in fact, jumping on their bed in his underwear while

chanting, "Katie is a boy!" over and over... I am about to lose my damn mind!

The Olympics have been a pretty good distraction for them. 

Charlie is impressed with the swimmers and  wants to swim like them.

But they still need more... 

I knew this would happen. It happens every summer. 

So back in April, I stocked up on all kinds of art supplies

and paints to keep them creative and distracted and busy.

Today, it worked. It was nice and calm in my home and I loved

seeing them be unique and creative. Charlie called himself an artist again

and that really struck a chord in me. I like that he thinks that of himself.

"Every child is an artist. 

The problem is how to remain 

an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso

I love their serious, little concentrating faces... 

 

 "Children are apt to live up 

to what you believe of them"
Lady Bird Johnson

I believe that my babies can be anything they want to.
They are smart and kind and capable. They will give back to this world.
 I am sure of that.

 Let's just hope they make it through the summer so that they can become
those gracious, loving and kind adults that I believe they will ...ha ha.

Any new ideas for keeping them busy are WELCOME!