Our New Family Portrait

This blog has been saturated with Cedric milestones so I'm happy to shine some light on Fiona today.

{Light that doesn't involve talk of genitalia that is.}

Fiona and I will often sit down to draw or craft and so far it's been fairly Mommy led.

Well, that's changing.

Fiona leads craft time now, she knows exactly what she wants to make.

If I'm lucky she'll take a suggestion here and there but that's a rarity.

The other night we sat down with just markers and paper and this little girl blew my mind.

Drawing has been mostly scribbling and the odd shape until now.

Fiona always has an explanation for her masterpiece but I can rarely see it.

Then she does this.

Now I'm not expecting anyone else to see this as beautiful.

I, however, think it's amazing.

{And no, I'm not offended that I am by far the largest.}

The members of this family have eyes, noses, mouths, arms, legs and even feet.

And in the right spots.

This is big people.

Definitely a keeper.

Christmas Crafting: TP Reindeer

I got this idea from this TP Roll Owl that has been all over Pinterest.

{I chose one of the many links but can't guarantee it's the original.}

Just a Christmas-y twist on this cute idea.

We started by folding the top of the roll over a piece of pipe cleaner {about 1/2 of a piece}.
If you put a dab of glue on top it prevents the antlers from popping out.
We cut the other half of the pipe cleaner into 2 smaller pieces.
Then we used those 2 pieces to make the antler branches.

We glued 2 eyes and 2 pom poms on for the nose.

We then put a bow and eyelashes on one to make it a girl.

I am fully aware that females would not have antlers but this is a toddler craft ok?

**Correction: See Diana's comment.**

That's it.

Fiona thinks they're pretty cute.

 Speaking of pretty cute, Fiona brought this home from school.

I have been dreading looking forward to the day we have school crafts on our tree.

Now it feels complete.