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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!

The Piano

The Piano
Photo-A-Day #1402

Eva has really enjoyed the piano at Memere’s house so today when we visiting Fr. Dave at the rectory we saw that he also had a piano. Or rather, Eva saw Fr. Dave’s piano and she kept saying “puh, puh” which is her word for piano. She loves playing it so she went towards it. I scooped her up so she wouldn’t go over to it.

Later as we were talking to Fr. Dave my mom mentioned that Eva like to play with her piano. The piano itself is out of tune and Fr. Dave said that his was as well. After that Eva was getting ancy so she walked towards the piano room. I followed her and propped her up on the stool and took a few shots as she played with the keys. She was very careful not to bang on the keys too. Well as careful as a 16 month old can be. Really, she actually uses her fingers and not her entire palm or fist.

Little Fingers

I also talked to Fr. Dave about the book Combinations by Ed Gerety. I just bought my Church a copy of the book so that the 8th Grade class of the school that is associated with the church Saint Mary Sacred Heart (My grade School) can use it with an 8th grade retreat. I love the book and the message and paying it forward and sharing it has become very fun for me especially when people enjoy the book.

Speaking of enjoying things, Allison made spaghetti squash for dinner tonight along with her mom’s recipe for meatballs and sauce. It was delicious! And spaghetti squash won’t spike my sugar like pasta. Nice. And if you are wondering what Spaghetti Squash is, it is really squash that when cooked is stripped apart and resembles spaghetti and with a little sauce it is really tasty.