{"id":7793,"date":"2012-01-21T17:29:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T22:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2012-01-21T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T22:34:34","slug":"lazy-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=7793","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

We slept in\u00a0 this morning and woke up to a rainy day, so after a few episodes of old Hannah Montana re-runs and a bit of karaoke, we broke out the paint brushes.\u00a0 McCanless’s idea, so I let her set it up and help out baby sister.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I tried to get dressed to no avail-PJ’s again for me today.\u00a0 (Shirt sleeves will be the death of me.)<\/p>\n

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A little secret:\u00a0 We prime over old canvas paintings and paint right over them again and again and again and again.\u00a0 I can’t hang everything they paint-I’d have no wall space!<\/p>\n

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McCanless decided to make money for summer camp today. She wants to paint and sell her paintings for 5 dollars.\u00a0 At that rate, she’ll be 24 by the time she can afford to go to summer camp. (Wink)\u00a0 I told her that Dad and I would swing the camp tuition again this year if she promised to send a letter home this time!\u00a0 Deal.\u00a0 So, now she’s making money for camp clothes.<\/p>\n

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She helped baby sister learn how to mix paint to make 20 different shades of pink,<\/p>\n

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then got busy on her own painting.\u00a0 I only poked my head in a couple of times as she painted.\u00a0 MC didn’t paint long, so her painting isn’t finished.\u00a0 She grew tired after a few pink polka dots and splotches and decided to play with her Barbie house.<\/p>\n

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McCanless’s final painting is of a Magnolia tree, just like the one in our yard that can be seen through the dining room windows.\u00a0 It amazed me how she remembers what a Magnolia bloom actually looks like.\u00a0 Obviously, our tree has no blooms right now, but she remembered the shape and cones.\u00a0 I love how she made two huge blooms on the tree.\u00a0 She knows proportions and how to paint them correctly, but chose to paint them this way.\u00a0 She paints quickly and doesn’t really put much thought into anything she’s doing.\u00a0 I love watching her.\u00a0 When she runs out of a color, she switches. If she “messes up,” she keeps going, and enhances her “mistake.” She stops and plays with her hair.\u00a0 She doesn’t take it seriously at all.\u00a0 It’s amazing to watch her.<\/p>\n

“It’s a magnolia tree mom.\u00a0 I love flowers.\u00a0 So, I made them big.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We slept in\u00a0 this morning and woke up to a rainy day, so after a few episodes of old Hannah Montana re-runs and a bit of karaoke, we broke out the paint brushes.\u00a0 McCanless’s idea, so I let her set it up and help out baby sister.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I tried to get dressed to no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}