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We decided the best option for decorating pumpkins with Jada was to paint them with washable paint. Carving is obviously too advanced (even for I sometimes), stickers she will continuously peel off and play with, markers smear, so paint it was. Jada was a bit tentative at the start. Then her artistic abilities came flying out as she dunked the same brush into every color (and I mean every, she does not color discriminate). In the end her pumpkin was covered in rainbows of globbed on paint that took a good 24 hours to dry. I think we will have to take out the paints more often for craft time.
Jeff and I took Jada for a little stroll in the woods. We don't call it hiking anymore like the good old days in CO because Florida lacks any change in elevation. I must admit there is a lot more wildlife to see when wandering the outdoors in FL than in CO but I still long for mountains. I guess another positive to FL wandering is that Jada can do it on her own without being carried in a pack. For any of my FL friends you will be surprised to know that this small park was actually in Port Charlotte. Jada thought it was great fun and she already appears to have an appreciation for nature. She stops to watch butterflies and look at flowers all along the trail.
Yeah!!! The bunnies have flown the coop or at least hopped out of the horse runs. Just in time too because it looks like we may have a few rainy days ahead of us.
Jada had her first pumpkin picking experience this weekend. She thought it was very exciting running around picking up every small pumpkin and even some sexually explicit shaped gourds, which thankfully we convinced her to leave behind. As I have mentioned before Jada feels the need to ride everything not just horses and apparently pumpkins are no exception.
This is Jada's first stick pony and she thinks its great fun. She calls it Tye but then again she calls all horses Tye now. It's probably because its easier than saying horse or neigh. She refuses to call any animal by there name instead (our fault) she calls them by the sound they make. So ducks are "Quack Quack", goats are "Baa", cows are "moo", dogs are a panting sound not the typical woof, and even camels have a sound, they spit. Being the bird person that I am, she even distinguishes between owls "hoo hoo", turkeys "lobble lobble" (kind of a yodeling sound), and songbirds "tweet tweet". If you ask her where the House Wren (the species I studied in college) is she can pick out the picture on the fridge.
Bret Michaels has discovered the outside. He usually spent most of his time back in the stall (probably because the peacocks would pick on him) but lately he is in the outer part of the enclosure all the time. He is also the only one who actually perches in the big tree we have out there. Maybe it is because he is the only one small enough or not fat enough to still fly.
We decided the best option for decorating pumpkins with Jada was to paint them with washable paint. Carving is obviously too advanced (even for I sometimes), stickers she will continuously peel off and play with, markers smear, so paint it was. Jada was a bit tentative at the start. Then her artistic abilities came flying out as she dunked the same brush into every color (and I mean every, she does not color discriminate). In the end her pumpkin was covered in rainbows of globbed on paint that took a good 24 hours to dry. I think we will have to take out the paints more often for craft time.
