Creative Kids are Happy Kids

I emphasize the concept of speaking positively to the kids with phrases like, "Thoughts become things" and other gems like that. This morning, Jamisen said "Boom!" and then turned to me and said, "Mama, I don't think you saying 'boom' too much blew the house up.' He then suggested that we "build a model house with a boiler to try and see if we can figure out why the boiler blew up". The kid is a born engineer / skeptic. 

These little kiddos are excavating their dinosaur eggs. I told them that a dinosaur came by and dropped their eggs in the yard and they were so excited to go find them, though my born skeptic asked me about 26184 times if a dinosaur really had come by, questioning me closely about if I had really seen the dinosaur. Thankfully, I had run by a man walking a man in a dinosaur suit (really, you cannot make this stuff up) down at Boulevard Park on the same day as the dinosaur excavation AND had managed to take a video of the guy so I was able to show the video to our resident skeptic.

Lily handled the mallet like a pro. Eventually we had to switch them out to the big guns (actual hammers) because plaster is very hard to crack with tiny little hammers that have no real leverage.

Jamisen was very helpful with Lily and eventually, both of them were rewarded with little dinosaur bones. What was fascinating is that Lily's dinosaur bones were green and neither of them seemed to notice that bones aren't usually green. Jamisen is sleeping with his dino bones and the rest of his egg by his bed along with his excavation tools. You never know when the next egg might drop. 

 

We love our Home Depot trips. Who knew that a hardware store would become a large part of our family life?! =)

Joy is learning to be self-sufficient and use tools.

Happiness is learning to do it together, as a family.

The kids also learned how to make their own stuffed animals with two socks, a hot glue gun and a lot of cotton stuffing. They really do good with scissors - both of them - and Jamisen has been given scissor privileges again after the Lily-hair-cutting incident.