Watercolored people

A-chan loves my watercolor pencils. Originally purchased to help when designing temporary henna tatooes, the watercolor pencils are now entertainment for a whole evening. The fact that she can draw/paint on each of us is fun. The fact that it easily washes off in seconds with just water is my fav part :) She's been enjoying doing henna on me for a while, but her henna is very...let's say abstract. And it stays for a couple of weeks. Lovely watercolor pencils, I shall make an ode to thee. Anyway, she spent about an hour and a half painting flowers and hearts and fruit all over our arms and feet tonight while we watched Kodocha.

Yesterday we went to Stone Mountian to visit with friends and relax a little. A family of tourists happened to see a tortoise on the side of the hill next to the road and stopped to take a closer look. When they saw that the tortoise was laying eggs, one of the boys ran down the hill to tell us so we could come and watch too. It was pretty awesome. Definately not something you get to see often. A-chan seemed fascinated.

Today was Friday. Fridays are currently significant because they are the days when A-chan can play online computer games at pbskids.org. I've limited the weekly time she can spend on these games to just the one day because she was liking them way too much and ignoring the essential things in life like...popsicles! It's working out pretty well, I think. She knows exactly when she can play the games and doesn't pester me about it during the week unless she occassionally wants to know how many more days til friday. And it's also a powerful deterent to bad behaviour cause she knows she might not get her game time on friday if the rest of the week she was a cranky ogre.

She helped prepare the corn on the cob for our dinner tonight. It's amazing how much she loves the stuff. I seriously think that she would have eaten two whole ones by herself if I'd let her. After cleaning off all the corn silk and singing a song about it, she read some of "Cinderella" to me while I cooked. A few of the words gave her trouble like 'widowed' and 'step-mother'. The way she pronounced Anastasia was priceless.