Last year about this time, my friend Christie introduced me to the joys of pumpkin painting with babies!  Before that, I would never have considered letting EB paint because of the huge mess it would make, but Christie made it seem so easy and cleaned it up so swiftly that it made me see that art projects and painting are totally doable, and I needed to just get over the whole mess thing.

So, this year we decided to paint pumpkins again.  Of course, here there are no little baby pumpkins like in the States, so we painted big pumpkins and EB really enjoyed herself!  EB’s little friend Nicole came over to paint with her.  Nicole is only a few months younger than EB, and Nicole’s mother is one my closest friend in town – we meet every week to pray and the girls play together really well.

 

 Nicole was hilarious!  She did not want the paint to make her dirty – she got very upset when there was paint on her hand, and tried very hard to wipe it off.  EB just dived right in and covered herself, her pumpkins, and Nicole’s pumpkins with paint.  Both girls had fun, and now we have beautifully painted pumpkins for fall!