The Most Beautiful Fall Day EVER!

Mother Nature must have felt really bad about the October she gave us and made up for it today! With the sun finally shining in our windows this morning, it was hard not to get up and at 'em. We took a lovely walk and then spent the rest of the morning packing up the backyard. It was like a summer day in our little backyard paradise and Finley soaked up the sun while she painted a box. She's so funny - and OCD. Everytime she paints, she keeps all her colors in little sections. I can't get my 11-14 year olds to keep the paints clean and she washes her brush between colors and dries it off every time. Tonight, I had to work on some artwork for school and I told her she wasn't allowed to touch my expensive art supplies. She just couldn't stand it and had to play with my Prismacolor Markers (they cost almost $300!), and my Prismacolor colored pencils, and my acrylic paint tubes. What's so funny, though, is that we can completely let her play with those things because she just wants to sort them by color and line them up! Then, she sat on the floor and colored with Daddy on Mommy's old desk calendar. She colored a different color in each day. Perfect rows and shapes. She also proved how smart she is while I was painting for school. I was making a banner for the "Spectrum Hall of Fame." She pointed to each of the letters and said, "That's F for Finley. That's A for Annie. That's E for Emerson. That C for Cassie and Cam. That's M for Megan. That's S for Sadie. That's L for Luke...etc." with no coaching from me! Then, out of the blue she said, "Oh, Cameron!" in exactly the tone I take with him when I'm frustrated. What a little sponge!

P.S. She woke Cam up this morning to go to the potty at 6:30 and stayed dry ALL DAY!!! She goes by herself when she feels like it and wipes her own bottom. What a big girl!