{hands full of happiness}: Going on a leaf hunt, I'm not afriaid...

The Darndest Things

C (Explaining to Eli and Si school fire drills): You have to go outside, and you can't talk, because, if you open your mouth, you will get fire in it.

Silas (at the Costco fountain pop machines): I want BEER!!!

Me (while dousing the hot dogs in ketchup): What? Did you say you wanted beer?

Silas: Yes.

Me: It's called ROOT beer, Silas. We don't drink beer. (Loud enough for all to be assured that my 4 year old doesn't drink beer.)

Silas: I call it BEER!

Silas: Mum, you got borned some really awesome kids!

Jared: Silas, come here.
Silas: Me no Silas, me Si-la-guy!

Silas (pointing to bone on the side of his ankle): Mommy, rock. in. my. foot.
Me: It's not a rock, it's a bone.
Silas (incredible distressed): Oh no! Mommy, BONE in my foot!

Silas (when the sun went behind a cloud and the room got darker): Mommy, dark?
Me: Ya, the sun just went behind a cloud.
Silas, very sad: Mommy, me miss da sun.

Silas (At 1:30 in the morning after he has been sleeping terrible due to a stuffed nose): Uh oh
Me: What, is your nose broken?
Silas: Yup, two them broken.

Me (at dinner time): Eli, have you been wearing your t-shirt on backwards all day.
Eli (without skipping a beat): No, but I've been wearing my underpants on backwards all day.

Eli (the first time he sat in his brand new, ridiculously expensive but totally safe car seat): It's like way comfortabler. It's like a pile of clouds I'm sitting on.

Eli: I know why the world turns. It's because the sun is so hot, and the world is a guy, and it doesn't like being so hot, so it turns around all the time to cool off.

Eli: You know that stuff in your eye? It's Jell-o, and it can see stuff. I know, because I touched it.

Eli: There's a skeleton inside my body that talks to me and tells me all the things that are good.

Me: Eli, pull up your underpants, it's not polite to walk around with a bare bum.
Eli: I don't have a bare bum, mum.
Me: What exactly would you call it?
Eli: A person bum.

Eli: Mum, will you button my pants and pull up my...um... bug?

Eli: Silas is such a little "Duke-ter." Me: What's a Duke-ter, Eli. Eli: Someone who eats all the 'Mo' so I can't have any.

Eli: Why is there toilet paper all over the yard. Me: 'Cause dumb teenagers didn't bother to find out if Auntie Phoebe was home or not, and now we have to clean it up. Eli: Grandma's going to be really mad. Let's eat them alive: crush their bones and drink their blood. (I promise, I don't know where he got that one.)

Eli (when I was wearing a dress that kind of makes me look preggers): Mommy, your 'mo' looks ugly when you have sisters in your tummy.

27 September 2010

Going on a leaf hunt, I'm not afriaid...

The good weather seems to be holding out here in Alberta this week, and so to enjoy it we walked to and from church yesterday. Despite being in high heels and nylons, it was thoroughly enjoyable! As we walked we pointed out to Eli all the different colors of leaves, and decided to go on a leaf hunt, collecting as many different colours and shapes as we could. By the time we got home, we had a real bounty!

There's even a flower, and a single pine needle in there!

After we laid out all our leaves, we searched through our stash of felt and matched the leaves with the different colours. Eli's job was to arrange the leaves.

Then we took those felt pieces and traced circles on them. I cut them up, Eli passed them to me as I sewed them, and we came out with a beautiful garland inspired from the leaves we collected! Eli was happy to be able to pick out which leaf went with which coloured circle.

Okay, so there were no purple or blue leaves, but I thought the garland needed a little more colour, so I sneaked those in!

Check it out at:

Get Your Craft On

6 comments:

child of the universeSeptember 27, 2010 at 12:52 PM
i LOVE this! i want to do it!!!
holly
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The PrattsSeptember 27, 2010 at 1:33 PM
Very cute! I fully plan on copying your idea, today! (Although maybe construction paper and staples for garland since I don't have all that cool felt on hand)
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CherylSeptember 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM
I love it too! I love the felt.... I wish I had a stash like that....
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JennySeptember 27, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Cheryl, what's mine is yours... you know that!

Linds, you could actually cut out the leaf shapes if you use construction paper. I wanted to do that, but it was too hard in the felt. It will be oh so pretty!

Holly, come home and you can do it with me.

PS For all who want to know, I get my wool felt from woolfeltcentral.com. I love it!
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akathemomSeptember 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM
very pretty - would make a cool door hanging if you made a ton!
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nest of posiesOctober 1, 2010 at 10:39 PM
this is a wonderful idea. it is just lovely.

love the treasure from the hunt. so special.

thanks for linking up to the FALL FESTIVAL!

kellie
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