On Fridays, the kids don't have any homework, so we did Pudding Painting instead! The kids were a little confused at first, because they didn't know if it was REALLY ok to make a mess with the pudding. I am regularly saying "Please don't spill, or get it on your clothes", but today was different! I showed them what to do by mushing my own hands in the pudding, and boy it felt great! There is something theraputic about painting with your fingers and mushing the pudding around.

I should have taken off Faith's beautiful white shirt before we started, but (thanks to Jell-o) it washed right out! The weather has changed from VERY hot (95 degrees) to fall weather (more like 75) all this week! Each morning, we don't know which clothes to put on - but we are welcoming the nice weather and happy to be able to enjoy the weather by playing outside as much as possible!

The kids LOVE our new trampoline, and are starting to make up games to play together, rather than just with Mom and Dad. Grant, Faith and Clark can all do flips, and Johnny is proud of himself when he does a "bummer". He can't quite get back up to his feet before the bounce is over, but he'll get there. He sure gets tossed around a lot, but is a good sport about it. We just say "Good flip, John", and he pops right back up and is just fine!

This is how Grant would look with a goatee! No thanks! Grant has had a habit since he was really young of LICKING all around his lips while he's eating! So, he has a food goatee a lot! He's still darling, but we're working on his funny habit.

Here are the kids on our picnic table outside - do you really think I"d let them Pudding Paint in the kitchen? I'd be finding globs for weeks! This was a perfect spot for our project/after school snack.