Wordless Wednesday...

...with an explanation.

I'm always hesitant to pull out paint. i've grown braver as addie has gotten older, but i've never let the little girls paint.

until the other day.

how else can you make a snow scene or "drive" through a snowstorm without white paint?

so i put the table (we all love it, gramma!) in the foyer and carefully taped down the babies' papers. everyone got their own paper plate of paint, a q-tip and later a plateful of matchbox cars!

we made beautiful snow pictures with q-tips and then i poured paint on a new sheet of paper and they drove cars through it...creating a snow storm.

and had a blast!

i only had to clean paint out of one mouth. the table easily wiped clean. i think we managed to keep it all in one location. and we made 6 wonderful creations!

that is until i went to wash the cars off and realized i could hear audrey kate and addie in her room, but it was eerily quiet in the foyer.

yeah...i should NOT have left the 500 count q-tip box where Anne Perry could reach it.

but everybody helped clean up, some more willing than others!

and just in case you're wondering, we painted the next day (and the next) too ;-)