April Showers...

Not only do they bring May flowers, they also bring loud, cracking thunderstorms that wake slumbering children from what I considered a delightfully cozy, delicious nap. After spending the morning at school with Heath, I was really looking forward to one, too.

Oh well. At least we had an interesting activity planned for the drizzly afternoon.

While I was at school with Heath, my mom had a morning with Stella. Just the girls. HeHe looks very forward to these rare one-on-one times with either child. Before they met us back at our house, the two gals stopped by the Morrocroft library. (Still open for business. Phew.) They raided the 25 cents book area and purchased quite a few children's book. We read most of them just before our naps (yes, the nap that was short-lived. I'm still bitter.), including Shaggy's Halloween. I actually don't think that is the right title. It had a dog in it, and I think I am remembering this dog's name correctly, but it could be something else, something similar to Shaggy. It was about Halloween. (The book is downstairs and I don't feel like confirming the title right now.)

Anyhoo, the book concluded with instructions for making your own Halloween masks using paper grocery bags, glue, crayons, and scissors. Heath fell asleep and woke up from his nap with mask-making enthusiasm.

Not only did he make a robot mask, and robot body, he also made one for puppy. Puppy's even had a hole for his tale. It was great fun for Heath. Unfortunately, Stella was feeling less than excited about mask-making. As a matter of fact, she has felt less than excited about most things today, so craft-time was no exception. The only thing that seemed to please her was being able to hold and gnaw on the scissors, and well, that just screamed ER visit.

Just as mask-making was turning south, the weather read my mind, and the sun appeared, the drizzle stopped, and I popped some shoes on everyone and headed outside. Stella wanted to 'wing, and finally got a smile on her face for the first time today.

Good thing, too, because an hour and a half later, Heath accidentally closed the bathroom door on her fingers. While she was giving a good, full-body, mouth open holler, I spotted what looked like two giant dragon teeth emerging in the back of her head. Yikes.