Crafting: take two

After last week's success, I might have gotten a little overly confident in my crafting abilities.

This week, I'm introducing Lulu to new textures. I sit her in her highchair and hand her an ice cube to bat around the table top. I give her a plateful of cooked spaghetti noodles to sop through. Today, I was going to fill a tupperware with warm water and let her splash around for a while. But then I spied a tube of kid-friendly, nontoxic paint in the pantry and decided that we could combine art and science into a perfect-mother storm of learning and fun!

On the spur of the moment, I decided we would make tags for Christmas presents. I drew rows of fir trees onto a piece of tagboard and dolloped some red paint onto a plate. Then I dipped Lu's hands into it and sat back to watch her work.

I kind of thought we'd end up with some charming hand-drawn trees with little, delicate finger-dotted ornaments on them.

That is not exactly what happened.


I didn't even think about the onimousness of my choice of paint color until James came in the room and shouted HOLY FUCK CALL 911.

I'm still going to use the tags. I think they make a statement.

A statement that says: It's the most MURDEROUS time of the year.

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