What Quinn makes....

Mostly, he makes smiles. The other stuff he makes...you wouldn't want to see!

Geek in training?

Abbie was mad at me recently, because I told her it was time to stop playing a computer game. Okay, it was on PBSkids.org, but still, five-year-olds don't need to be computer zombies, right? She huffed and puffed for a while, but then cheered up and announced that since she couldn't use my computer, she'd make her own! It's very energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

I've always wanted to be a Princess (oh wait, no I haven't!")

One day recently, Abbie decide that our whole family should be "royal". I don't think she finished making a crown for each of us, but here are the ones she made for me and for Quinn. Quinn looks like he rather enjoys his new elevated social status, doesn't he?

When Stuffed Animals Marry

Today, we were informed by Abbie that there would be a wedding after lunch, and we were invited. Abbie's favorite stuffed dog, Beads was to be betrothed to another stuffed animal, Spot. The scandalous part is that Beads and Spot just met this morning!!! At the appropriate time, Lukas, Chip and I shuffled into Abbie's room for the ceremony. There was a slight delay because the blanket was not laid out quite to the liking of the Justice of the Peace, but after that, the wedding went off without a hitch. At the Justice's request, the audience hummed the wedding march. Take special note of Bead's veil in the photos below (made of a pipe cleaner and a white paper towel), and enjoy the video of the ceremony and slow dance that followed. The wedding happened about 20 minutes ago, but just now, Abbie came to me here and said, "Beads is going to have puppies!" Wow...that was fast, or perhaps a shotgun wedding??

Channeling Jackson Pollack

So, you may have seen "60 Minutes" the other night. One of the segments featured a retired trucker with an 8th grade education who bought a painting for $5 at a yard sale some years ago. Her painting just may be an original Jackson Pollack, but I'll leave that debate to the snooty art experts. Abbie was quite interested in the old footage shown of Pollack doing one of his drip paintings, and declared that she had to try it. I quickly piped up that this particular project must be done outdoors. Anyway, so here are a few pics of the process, to go along with the final result shown above. We had no paint cans or paint sticks, so alas, little bowls and shishkabob sticks had to do. In the end, Abbie herself looked as much like an original Pollack as her paper did, though I failed to photograph that in my haste to get her into the shower.

Abbie Self Portrait

This blog is about my little gal, Abbie, who is five and is quite ummm... creative. I don't know that she is more creative than most five-year-olds, but frankly, I find the things she makes cute and most amusing, so I wanted a way to catalog and display them. Abbie doesn't know about this blog. I'll show it to her when she is older, but if she knew about it now, she would start producing things just so I would post about them. I want the things she makes to remain spontaneous and uncorrupted by the knowledge that she has an audience. And she does enjoy and audience.