Pumpkin painting playdate

As I mentioned at the end of my last post, Sierra and I were invited to a pre-Halloween pumpkin painting playdate. My friend Lorae was so sweet (and brave) to host a playdate where we gave paint to three 1-year-olds (well, Sophia will be 1 this week!). Spencer was there too, but at just 3.5 months, he has not quite developed the eye-hand co-ordination necessary to smear paint on a pumkin.
After a little pre-pumkin painting playtime, we got ready for the main event. I was really happy that Jason was there (came by to see his mom off) because the actual pumkin painting was sort of like a justice of the peace wedding. That's the reason you're all there, but it's over in a flash. With Jason, the pumkin painting would just have to live on in our memories instead of on film in digital files. First we decked out our tiny painters in some old t-shirts.

Here's Harper in a monk robe her dad's old shirt.
Lorae gets set-up.
Pumkins are ready and waiting.
We're all ready to paint.
First, you must taste your pumkin to make sure it is "good" for painting!

The girls let their creative juices flow while Spencer looked on, anxiously awaiting the day he, too, could paint all over his mom's arms a pumpkin.


Sierra also decided to taste the paint ... um ... mmmm? (Good think it's non-toxic!)

I just realized that I didn't take a photo of the finished artpieces, but Sarah did, so you can go over there to check them out!

After we cleaned up from the pumpking painting, we had some playtime before heading home.