Painting

Inspired by my friend Jessica (we taught together, she is now a mom also, and she posts all the fun projects she does with her kids, which is great fun for me to read about), I thought I'd share a fun painting project that Aidan and I did this week.

Put down some scrap paper (we used a junk mail catalog, which was perfect).

Lay a paper towel on the paper.

Using markers, color and draw fun designs on the paper towel.

Dip a paintbrush in water and paint over the designs. Watch the markers bleed!

Aidan was fascinated by it, and the best part was that it was virtually no mess! (Just a little marker smudges on the hands!)

Happenings

So what's going on here?

Mike is in Las Vegas for a week-long conference. Day one was mighty rough, but now that Aidan and I have found our Mike-less routine, we're doing much better. Except that Aidan is in bed sobbing right now. But otherwise we're great!

I'm still LOVING my calling as Primary chorister. In fact, I am going to make some beanbags tonight to use in Sunday's singing time.

Piano lessons are so fun! Not only is it exciting for me to be teaching them, but Aidan loves my students, too. He often will ask about them, and on lesson days he starts looking out the window, watching for them to arrive.

Trying hard to stay healthy with help from my sister Emily! (We're tracking together.) Mike, Aidan, and I passed around a pretty nasty cold last week, from which we are now finally recovering, so gym time is getting back to normal.

Finally getting around to maybe thinking about decorating our house. It's only been six months - that's not very long, right?!

We're getting temps in the 30-50 degree range! That means that the snow is melting! We can actually see patches of bare grass! I LOVE SPRING!!! :)

That's life here in Rochester! What's going on in your town?

New Baby

Sorry about the long absence. Someone pointed out that I only blog about Aidan, which is true. (In my defense, I do spend all day every day with the little guy!) So it took me a while to come up with other things to tell everyone about.

But, here's something awesome!

I got a new baby! This is my new piano that we had been saving for over the last 5 years. It is so nice! In fact, it's nice enough that I've started teaching piano lessons, which I have really enjoyed.

As a stay-at-home mom in a new town, obviously my social contacts basically all come through the Church. So you would figure that all of my students would be LDS, right? Ironically enough, not a single one of my students is. Also, they come from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds.

I have 2 Australian kids, 2 kids from Costa Rica, one student from England, 2 students from Nigeria, and a former student from Korea (he moved back already). Pretty unusual, isn't it?

Anyway, all of us have certainly enjoyed the new piano. Mike has even taken a few lessons!

He's certainly showing great progress, isn't he? :)