My Sophie, crafty little girl that she is, has taken decorating her room to a whole new level. This happened the week before Halloween, but everyday I am reminded of her creativity!So, we had gone to Michael's Craft Store to decorate for Halloween and fall (since we don't have a fall here in Arizona we have to pretend). After many threats to my sweet child (who is never good in a store and asks for things every millisecond) and antibacterial wipings of our cart we head into the craft store. We navigate the aisles, cart full of fake pumpkins and weird halloween decorations, my arms cradling the fake fall foliage I have so carefully choosen while Sophie does hip hop dance moves knocking things off the shelves and running into peoples carts. Then Sophie insists on buying a foam spider web and I am thinking, okay, I will agree to this seemingly innocent 99 cent item and get us the heck outta there. I figure she will add foamies to it to decorate it or she will just hang it somewhere. Possibly even forget about it-yea right that kid forgets nothing!!
We go home and proceed to get into the holiday mood by decorating the kitchen and living room, so fun. Then I leave my little angel to her own crafting in our loft, well, this is what I think she is doing while I talk to Tiler's math teacher on the phone (which is a whole other story about how my teenager talks non-stop in class and corrects his teacher)....ugh......
So, after hanging up the phone I seek out Sophie who is being so quiet....you know that type of quiet.....and she is sitting in her room and before her is my acrilyic (non washable) black and orange paints and she has proceeded to decorate her walls with her spider web "STAMP" as she is calling it...for HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I burst into tears and so does she.
After I calm down I realize she is telling me through her tears that she is crying because they did not come out perfect.....Debbie I know this will make you proud!! I guess we can just stamp Christmas trees over them next week!
3 comments:
That is HILARIOUS! I just love this girl...she is just what you ordered. LOL Your mom is loving this, right? How could you not feel sorry for her when she was so sad that her stamping wasn't perfect?? AWWWWW
Well, we know where the perfection comes from!!!! I just try not to look at this display when I go into her room. I remember the seven or ten days it took you to paint that room and I also remember some tears then. When I first saw this and asked Sophie about it, she would not look at me, she just continued what she was doing and said “mommy cried”.
Ok time for an update! you'll wish I didn't have a link to your blog soon! LOL
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