Sunday, March 7, 2010

pirates, paints, beasts, and bags

We are so patiently waiting the arrival of spring.  The boys enjoy the snow, but aren’t super excited about it.  Our adventures outside don’t last real long.  Silas’ gloves either come off or get wet, and Eli usually decides a movie inside sounds like more fun.  This day, Eli was a snow pirate, and Silas insisted on wearing his rubber boots outside(probably the reason it didn’t last long).

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Kind of a Viking pirate, I guess.

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The boys are really into coloring and painting.  Silas is interested in whatever his big brother is doing, so that makes entertaining him a bit easier.

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Our paints were no longer separate colors, but all more of a brown after this day of painting.

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Brothers sharing an artistic moment.

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After watching Beauty and the Beast, Eli decided he wanted to be a beast.  He decided he wanted a beast costume in 10 minutes, and felt I should be able to whip one up.  We had to improvise, as I wasn’t ready to sew an entire costume that day.  His lion costume was slightly altered to add some horns, some gloves with claws sewn on, and part of a pirate costume made a great-looking beast.  While watching the movie, he attempted to transform himself from the beast to man, as it was happening on the screen.  His expression when he saw himself as a ‘man’ was priceless.

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Silas had fun with the bags one Sunday, and it encouraged me to clean the closet out. :0)

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The guys hanging out…they love each other lots!

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