The Gilsons: Dare I?

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Dare I?

We close on our house next week (YAY!) and Izzy and I have different ideas of how we want to decorate her room. (What is it with Izzy posts lately???) She doesn't want a purple room but a Pixie Hollow room. So I ask what is a pixie hollow room? She describes her walls as being the colors of a sunset and a tree with lots of fairies. Her description was too long to keep up with so I said, "Draw me a picture." She did also mention that if I thought it would be too hard, she could do it herself.

So this was her masterpiece. She says she can paint better than she can draw so do I get crazy like I did with our birthday cake decorating and let her do it or would that just be taking their creativity a bit too far?=)

3 comments:

Barbara said...: It is her room. She is to feel comfortable in her room and if she wants to decorate it, let her. I know just a grandma talking but she may surprise you!; May 6, 2010 12:46 PM
Caralee said...: Sure, why not? You can always paint over it later, right? :) What a creative, imaginative little girl!

Looks like we will be closing on our houses around the same time. Yeah for new homes!; May 7, 2010 9:49 AM
Jones said...: oh I say LET HER DO IT!

1st, Rocky did a mural in the girls room and gave Maddy a paintbrush too...she had free rein, and it's awesome having her own personal touches on the walls!

2nd, that means YOU don't have to do it! lol, less work = more relaxing ;)

and tell her I am really impressed with that drawing and can't wait to see her painting skills!!! ;); May 7, 2010 10:48 AM

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Kid funnies

--Alex said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a star and hang it in my bedroom.

Calvin said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a cloud and use if for my pillow.

Izzy said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd go to the Milky Way and sell milk.

--While boiling apples for making applesauce Calvin said, "Look at all the hot going up. ... I smell BBQ." Alex said, "No, that's applesauce."

--While cleaning the basement and seeing Calvin not participating I said, "Calvin, do you know how to pick everything in here up?" Calvin said, "NO, I don't have big hands. I only have 2 hands." All I could do was laugh.

--Izzy said, "When I'm bored, I squish people's heads at church."

--Alex said, "I really want to take swimming lessons. I already know how to drown."

--Calvin after using the little potty. "Mommy, come get Henry quick or he's going to snitch my pee."

Favorite Homeschooling Quotes

"Schoolhouses are made wrong. If they must be, they should be built in a woods pasture beside a stream, where you could wade, swim, and be comfortable in summer, and slide and skate in winter. The windows should be cut to the floor, and stand wide open, so the birds and butterflies could pass through. You ought to learn your geography by climbing a hill, walking through a valley, wading creeks, making islands in them, and promontories, capes, and peninsulas along the bank. You should do your arithmetic sitting under trees adding hickorynuts, subtracting walnuts, multiplying butternuts, and dividing hazelnuts. You could use apples for fractions, and tin cups for liquid measure. You could spell everything in sight and this would teach you the words that are really used in the world. Every single one of us could spell incompatibility, but I never heard father, or the judge, or even the Bishop, put it in a speech.

"If you simply can't have school that way, then you should be shut in black cells, deep under the ground, where you couldn't see, or hear a sound, and then if they'd give you a book and a candle and Miss Amelia, and her right-hand man, Mister Ruler, why you might learn something."--from Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter