Storytime at the Mud Hut

This is something I have been wanting to do with Dakin for a long time. Not too far from our house there's a wonderful place called The Mud Hut (you may remember that's where we got our custom ceramic pumpkin for Dakin). They have storytime for the kiddos and do a painting project with it, and since I had a car today, we decided to go.

It was so much fun! I was worried Dakin wouldn't be interested in the story--though he LOVES to read--because there were cute little blonde girls around. No need to worry there--he was far too interested in the cars going by to even look at the girls.

We did have something of a technical diffiiculty, though. The fuse blew on the ventilator battery (though we didn't know it until later), and we had no power for the vent. So we had to bag him--he loves being bagged--but it worked out anyway. That's the blue thing attached to his neck, in case you were curious.


Once he realized how like coloring painting is, he was way into it. He got annoyed and yelled "mama!" when I took a few seconds to paint my tile.

He wouldn't keep his fingers out of the paint.
Here are our tiles, pre-firing. The colors will be much more intense after firing, and I wanted to wait until then to post, but I also wanted the memory to be fresh, so I decided on today. The one on the left is mine--the heart, though you can't see it, is made out of his two hands. We didn't get it quite perfect, hence the lopsidedness of the heart. Isn't his beautiful? He decided pink, red and purple weren't enough and wanted yellow, so he got it.