Weston's Party Prep May 2102

Filling the bird!

Everyone is in on the fun!

Peter's amazing talent of painting...

Angry Bird Cupcakes

I think it's a hit!

We had a good time getting ready for Weston's party.  Weston and I started planning for his party on the night when Sierra and Peter were at the Father daughter dance.  We chose the theme,  made party favor bags, chose this cupcake design and began making the Red Angry Bird pinata! :)  

The pinata worked surprisingly well.  Fourteen kids got to hit it and still we had to get an adult to smash it at the end.   Pretty strong for something that was made of 1 flour and 3 parts water and various pieces of junk mail! :)   (I think of this every time I make pancakes now- it can't be good for us to eat what is essentially glue, but that is for another post! :)

The pictures of the part are on Peter's computer.  I will post them next.   And then I'll nearly be up to date and able to keep blogging about NOW! :)

Lighthouse

Homeschool is going well here. We read the Newberry Award winning book, Light at Tern Rock yesterday. It was a good book, really high reading level. Weston really understood it, though. It is about broken promises, forgiveness, and getting ready for Christmas in your heart.

I have been saving up things to recycle into homeschool crafts. Yesterday after the book was done we made this lighthouse! Weston painted it, collected the rocks, glued them on and painted the inside of the jar- all by himself.

With the help of a flashlight on the inside of the tube, it really glows! He is looking forward to bedtime because we are going to set it up in his room!

Halloween is coming...

Friday posts will be about projects....

Weston and Sierra have really been enjoying the Wall E movie. Weston LOVES Eva. He thinks she is so cool because she can fly AND she has a gun. Weston wants to be her for Halloween and he wants Sierra to be Wall E. I couldn't bring myself to tell Weston that Eva is a girl and Wall E is the boy, since it really doesn't matter! They are robots, right? So he WILL be Eva.

When Peter heard our plans he said, "It's a good thing you are starting three weeks early!"

Wall E is pretty easy, a painted box with triangular tracks on the side, and cool eyes. We put the eyes on Peter's old beany hat so that they wouldn't bug Sierra. I have to add the top of the box, to cover her shoulders and then Wall E will be done. Here is our rough draft---
Eve, is much more difficult. She is has tear drop shaped body and her head is egg shaped on top and flat on the bottom. So we used paper mache a big bowl for Eve's head shape--- any paper mache professionals out there that know why that was a BIG mistake?
The answer? It is STUCK on the bowl. I even put oil on the bowl before we started--- it didn't work. So today I peeled (and tore) it off. I will wait for that to dry and then paper mache on the top and inside again to strengthen it.

For the teardrop body, I designed the costume out of batting/stuffing and white fabric. Cross your fingers for me... it is NOT easy and Weston knows EXACTLY what he wants. :)

I designed a little light for his costume using a book light so that the green plant light will glow on Eva's tummy. He doesn't know about that. He will love it, if I can do it.

He says, "It MUST be tear dropped shaped, it MUST have wings, and the wings MUST be pointy."

I take it as a compliment that he thinks I can do this, we'll see. I don't know if my Singer and I can pull it off.

Well let me restate that, my Singer sewing machine can handle it, it's the seamstress that has NO IDEA what she is doing!