Finishing Up

We finished the last of our Impressionist art. Since Monet was a lover of gardens, we headed out to smell the roses in Grandma's garden.

We checked out the peas we planted earlier this spring.



 We found lots of fat, red, strawberries.

I told the girls how we use to pick peas for my dad and shell them and give them to him for his birthday.  Makayla: "Hey! That's what I want for MY birthday!"

We picked several bowls of berries

which we sliced into our favorite new food: crepes.

A little whip cream,

and we ate till we were ready to burst,

and then we ate a few more bowls of berries plain.

Last week we learned Monet loved watercolor and painting things reflecting in water, so we painted color stripes on a wet sheet of paper,

sprinkled it with salt

giving it an interesting finish,

then painted our landscape.

We spritzed it with water and folded the sheet in half to 

create a reflection.

Makayla was enjoying watercolor so much, she painted another version of Monet's Garden Bridge without referring back to the picture we looked at last week. I love it when the girls take what we're doing and make something they're interested in.



Makayla's version on the left, Monet on the right, just in case you're having a hard time figuring out which is the original.

Makayla made this picture at school. I think she's already an artist.

 

We finished the day with a few quick games of Pick-up Sticks. Hailey won several times in a row.

 

Makayla got to practice her "losing gracefully" skills.

 

In other finished news, we completed the fourth and final remodel at our lovely apartment.

 

All new paint and floors,

all new window blinds, cabinet hinges, cabinet paint,

all new built-in shelves,

all new closets, trim and door paint, and by the end of the day, all new renters.

 

We were so happy to be finished.

 

Now we have one more little project to finish up--a remodel of our rental house.

As you can see, it just needs a little work--

After all, with gold mirrors, fake marble counters, and wood paneling in the bathroom, how big could this remodel be???