And so it was. Friday morning, I was up bright and early at 7:15 AM, crawling into bed next to Mommy. She was awake, but she really appeared to be enjoy the six-and-a-half minutes of quiet time she got between Daddy leaving for work, and me showing up in her bed. We turned on Curious George, and after about three minutes, I softly said to her, "Mommy, I want to do my projects that we bought at Michaels!"
See, a few days ago Mommy had to run to pick up a few things from Michaels, so I tagged along. Down one of the aisle we found these great $1 wooden projects. Each came with all the pre-cut wooden pieces, glue, paint, and instructions necessary to construct "a project." I chose a train engine, a tractor, and a birdhouse.
So I quickly got dressed, ate a little breakfast, waiting for Mommy to change Madeline's diaper when she woke up, then impatiently sat at my table anxious to begin "my work." I chose to do the train first. Madeline was very patient, and sat attentively in my chair watching me. The sun was barely peaking through my blinds, it was so early! But, we had fun, and I concentrated really hard on them!
First, we had to glue all the pieces of the train together. I did a great job (with a little of Mommy's help)! Then it had to dry. While it dried, we glued together the birdhouse.
Then, it was time to paint them! Mommy said I did a really great job, too. I'm starting to understand that paint works best when you don't mix the colors very much and rinse of the paint brush between different colors. However, I was painting the yellow, when a drop of red accidentally mixed in, and I discovered that it made orange!
I had a great time making projects with Mommy!
