Book Manners and Creative Art

Miss M has a definite pattern when it comes to reading books, especially when they're new. I read the book aloud twice. Then she says, "Will you go away, please?" because she wants to read it herself. (And her readaloud version is always way more interesting than mine.)

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She painted with watercolors this afternoon. Most of her time was spent spreading water around on her paper and dipping a paper towel into the jar of water. She called me over when she was done.

Her paper was a puddle of muddy-looking water dripping off the table and covered with blobs of soaked, disintigrating paper towel mush. But she was proud of it. "Hang it up, Mommy!"