Oh Taste and See...: November 2008

Our Little Yoda

Before

After

Daniel just couldn't resist the urge to doctor Taylor's picture.

On Wednesday night before Halloween we had a Fall Festival at our church for the kids called Truth & Treat. There was a chili cook-off and dessert contest, which I entered my apple pie in (but didn't win), and we had hot dogs. It was fun to see all the kids in their costumes. All the activities were based on Bible stories and it was posted above the game what it represented and the book of the Bible and chapter it was taken from. Most of the activities were for kids a little bit older than Taylor, but we still had fun. We just walked around to the different activities and Taylor got candy. Here are some pictures from the event:

Taylor went as a UT cheerleader. We had varying comments on her costume. Some thought we were torturing her and others really liked it. Regardless, everyone thought she was the cutest UT cheerleader ever.

These are pictures of the Lost Sheep game. It's hard to tell, but they had sheep made out of cut out paper sheep and toilet paper rolls. There was a wire or something over the top of them and you had to use the staff to lift up the sheep. There was one sheep that was away from the others and the children were supposed to find the lost sheep and return it to the others with the staff.

These are pictures of Gleaning in the Fields taken from Ruth. The kids had to search through the straw for peanuts. We just threw them back since Taylor can't eat peanuts yet, but she did get some candy to take home and share with Mommy & Daddy.

The choir room was transformed into the belly of the whale. Once inside, they sprayed you with water and you had to climb up an inflatable slide and slide down the other side to get out of the belly of the whale.

I tried to get Taylor to go in with me, but she started crying whenever I would nudge her, so I just gave up. Maybe she will do it next year.

Taylor mostly enjoyed playing with the other children. She likes getting attention from older kids. Here she is with my friend Anna's little girl Elizabeth.

Fingerpainting

Today I decided to pick up some fingerpaints at Wal-Mart and let Taylor have her hand at it (no pun intended). At first I painted her palm and let her do a palm print on the page. Then I just squirted some paint on the page and let her have at it. At first she just dipped her finger in it and cried for me to wash the paint off her hands. I showed her how to spread it around. She spread it around a little bit, but she didn't really seem to be into it that much. I washed her hands off and then she started acting a little more interested. She started saying "yewwow" and was pointing at the paint. I asked her if she wanted to paint some more and she said "more" and did the sign for more. So, I got out another piece of paper and let her choose the colors one at a time. This let her have a little more control and I think she liked that. She participated a little better, but she was still ready to get the paint off of her hands after only the second color. I think she doesn't like having her hands dirty. You wouldn't know this by the way she eats though. I guess she will just have to get used to it. I kept telling her that it was okay and that it was supposed to be messy. I am not sure that she understood, but maybe next time she will like it better. Here are some cute photos I took of her first fingerpainting experience.

Do I look like a monk or Yoda? Maybe this will be part of my Halloween costume next year. The long face is from just waking from a nap and not being sure about what is going on.