Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Clay Day!

I finally let Jack play with the clay he got for Christmas. First I made a rainbow to demonstrate, and then let all the kids go at it pretty unsupervised...until I heard Sydney ask if she could hang her fairy on the window. "Oh...clay isn't for hanging you guys!" I didn't want clay all over my walls!!! So she carefully laid it down again while I admired it, and all of their first clay creations: snails, butterflies, a candy cane, and a few other mysterious objects.

Then it was time to clean up and have some quiet time in rooms.

I read Jack a story, tucked him into bed for a little nap, turned to leave the room, and jumped at this little surprise staring at me on his bedroom wall...



Sydney was already laying down and I didn't want to disturb her, but feeling bad for having told her she can't hang her fairy...


I hung it up myself to greet her when she woke up.
-and of course I took a picture of her fairy too...a kid only
makes a clay fairy once, probably.

Before the clay, he'd already started hanging a collection of Jack
originals to his bedroom wall...


yellow angry insect monster & store tag with signature.

So now we have a home adorned with clay...and I like it.

I'm starting to notice that Jack has this way of making everything
seem cute and funny enough to change all the rules.

8 comments:

Stacy said...

Ha ha! So funny, I can picture you jumping at that Jack on the wall. I'm impressed he sculpted his name out of clay AND was creative about it. A striped J, I love it!

Sydney's fairy is cute too, I don't know if I could make a fairy out of clay.

Megan said...

So fun...i will always remember playing with clay as a kid! it is the best!!

That is hysterical that Jack hung his name on the wall.

Such a great fairy...was she excited when she woke up?

lindseyflood said...

Jack's name was so good and colorful! I bet that made Sydney's day waking up to her fairy on the wall.

Anonymous said...

Deann! I can't believe that Jack could make his name with clay! Now, that's a work of art and so is Sydney's fairy. She just loves Fairy's, doesn't she? What about Allie, did she eat hers?

tiffany knox said...

I definately need to be more like yo ubecause anzlie just raves about you and your fun parties and everything else. You're serious close to celebrity status! anzlie wants to play with sydney too as soon as it works with you. call me anytime and hopefully Ill see you tomorrow night at girls night

Jennifer said...

Jack did an awesome job! I would have left it up too!

Kimmy said...

That is so cute Deann! I love the clay activity! Jack's pictures are always so funny! Yellow angry insect monster....LOL~

G. S. Funston said...

Crap! I left Syd's really cute picture she drew for me at your house! And it was SO good! I hope she didn't see that I didn't take it with me. At least she knows how cool I thought it was.