Disappointment and Discovery

If you have the desire to purchase Crayola's Glow Explosion Paint kit, I would save the money. Emma received one of these kits as a gift recently, and she was pretty excited to give it a try. 

I didn't have high hopes, as we have tried one of the other specialty Crayola kits (the Color Explosion 3D one) and Emma really didn't like it. 

Well, we decided to give this one a try. The package states something to the effect that the paint glows for, "up to 4 fantastic hours." Upon reading more, I realize that is all it glows for. It does not recharge in the light. So, basically once you mix the paint up (one each of red, blue, yellow, green), you have 4 hours to paint all of the pictures (maybe 4 or 6, I can't remember). 

All by your self. 

Unless of course you happen to have friends over, which might make the activity a little more fun, but still. You can't save the paint to use at a later date. Once you mix the paint with the activator stuff, it has to be used within 4 hours if you want your picture to glow. 

The stuff does glow really well, and that part of it was cool, but that was about as far as the cool factor went.

. Emma attempted to paint one of the pictures provided, but it was kinda tough. 

 Why was it tough to paint the picture?

The paint had the consistency of snot. It was thick and sticky and didn't spread out on the picture very easily.

She did manage to paint a bit of the picture

before she decided to move on to better, more exciting things.


Gramma- "Emma, would you like to go outside and light some Sparklers?"

Emma- "Mama, is it ok, can me and Gramma go outside?!?"

I had planned to take photos from the nice, warm house, but the pictures wouldn't come out and Gramma and Emma looked like they were having too much fun. I didn't want to miss out. 

Emma- "The sparklers are almost all done. Can we go in now?"

Mama- "Sure, why don't you stick the tip of your sparkler into the snow to put it out..."

"Mama, the snow is glowing!"

Who knew sparklers would still sparkle under the snow?

Hanging at Gramma's

Gramma's is our favorite place in the world. Our days are filled with our favorite things to do and our favorite people to do them with. 

Playing with Gramma

Computer Time

(adult supervision optional)

Exploring outside

Teeny Toad

Hop, Toad, Hop!

We should have brought out a dime!

  

Bye Bye Toad, thanks for playing.

Relaxing after my first 5k

Enjoying (despite his expression) a piano concert put on by Emma. I will try to figure out how to add video so you can enjoy it also :)

And sometimes sleeping. Though it always seems to be WAY past bedtime by the time we make it there. 

We have accomplished all that and more, plus we still have 5 days at Gramma's! 

Yeah summer!

Where is your favorite place to be?

Time Flies...

when things are going crazy. Here is a link to my other blog with an explanation of what has been going on.

On the Emma front, things have been good. She lost another tooth, this time naturally.

She seems to have grown a bunch, but I haven't gotten around to measuring her.

And she is sounding out words a lot quicker then she had been before the craziness started.

Other then that, I honestly don't know much. I am a little out of touch with my child at the moment, but thankfully I knew she was in great hands while she was with Gramma (my MIL) while I was taking care of my grandmother.

Emma, Jared, and I have had some serious family together time this past weekend and we look forward to little bits here and there as we can steal them.

I am glad to be home, glad to be with my family, and glad to be getting back into the rhythm of things.

A few photos of my beautiful cowgirl.