Liam sees something special

I was having lunch with Liam at Panera just now. He turned the lady at the table next to us and told her "I saw a titty in the bushes."

She actually choked on her coffee, so he clarified by saying "I saw a titty tat in the bushes at my house." I smothered a laugh and told her he meant a cat.  She did not look amused.  She changed tables less than a minute later...

She probably won't report me to CPS.  (We left quickly anyway.)

Spin art

Jessica and I had a favorite place to go to when we were kids to make stuff, and I think it was called Splatters.  It was (in our minds) this magical place to make cool clothing.  You would pick a sweatshirt/t shirt/tote bag/etc and put it on a spinning table and then drip paint onto it to create cool designs.  Inevitably, the clothing looked like we made it and the fad lost its steam pretty quickly.  How I wish I could find a picture of one of our ugly creations.  Alas, no photographic evidence might not be a bad thing.  Anyhow, today you can buy little machines like this one to create the same art.   I was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest, so last night I introduced Laney to spin art, the modern mommy version.

Laney needed to make some thank you notes for the volunteers in her Moppets class at Mops, as well as some Mother's Day cards.  We dropped a card into my salad spinner, which I haven't used in years since I discovered salad in a bag :)  Laney dripped paint onto the cards and then we gave it a whirl.  Here are her creations:

She really wanted me to put Laney Bug instead of Laney on the back.  

  I have to say that I had forgotten how fun it is to do spin art, and was really immersed in some fun memories last night as Laney and I made modern spin art cards.  It was really neat to see her experiment with the paint and to think of new ways to decorate.  It was like a little science experiment every time we took the lid off the spinner to see what we had made.   Mommy bonus: this project is not very messy and pretty cheap.   I think this art project is bound to repeated again and again this summer.  

Castember is almost over!

Thankfully, the month of Castember is drawing to a close.  Liam had a rough go of it week one, but was rewarded with excellent news at his one week checkup.  We had an x-ray taken of his leg (through the cast) and it showed remarkable healing.  In fact, you couldn't even see where the fracture had been.  The doctor then gave us the greatest news of all:  the cast comes off a week early!  That means, as of tomorrow, the cast will be gone!!!! Yippppeeee!!!  The last 3 weeks have been a trial for us, and a test of wills as well.  Liam has come through all of this remarkably, complaining very little about the cast or any itching.  He has had his fair share of muscle cramping and pinches from the cast itself though.  He started walking around on the cast after 2 weeks and by the end of last weekend was going up and down the stairs with remarkable speed.  We also began taking him to the park after his x-ray showed good progress.  There is a small park nearby that Liam could navigate really well in.  We just slipped one of Patrick's big socks over the cast so he didn't get any debris inside, and off he went.   I even had to ask him to stop climbing up the side of the jungle gym the last time we went.  I am just not ready to explain any more injuries to the doctor right now...

This cast has seen better days!  It is cracked in  the back by the heel too.

Here is Liam's famous "monster walk" perfected by hobbling around on his cast.