Don't Eat the Daisies!

Fall Art Project - Leaves made during General Conference: Great thing to do, kept River interested and entertained, but didn't take too much thinking to distract from the message.
Coloring Eggs - River enjoyed this activity and was taking pictures of me with her camera while I took pictures of her.

Feet Painting!
Finger Painting!

Jigglers!

Princess - Dress Up!

Sweet, Sweet, Sweet!

Painting pumpkins for Halloween!

Happy Princess.

I used to watch Doris Day movies with my grandma when I was little.

One is called Don't Eat the Daises. One of her little boys ate daises, and he says something like, but Mom, you didn't say to not eat the Daises!

River's latest book from the Library was about naughty little monkeys that go through the house doing things they shouldn't. The book was a great conversation starter about Rules.

The next day while coloring a picture on the table, she said "Mom, it's a rule not to cut our own hair, huh!" We then talked about some of the other rules in our home: Only color on paper, not walls, and When you're finished chewing gum, throw it in the trash. No throwing things inside and Be nice to Each Other.

A short while later, I noticed that our front room blind cords had been cut!! She had sniped the cords on each blind - on all 3 of the front room windows. One of them is so short, the blinds only come down about a foot! River has been so proud of her new found talent of cutting out things - she cuts really well and goes around shapes on her paper.

We set a new rule in our home on the spot: No cutting the blind cords! No cutting anything without Mama's permission. In River's defense, she did ask me, sort of: I was SO tired, I laid down while Silver Finally went down to nap. Silver has had the worst diaper rash ever. She kept me up really late the night before and early the next day, waking up multiple times in the night and had a hard time napping. So, I enjoyed a nap myself while Silver finally slept some. Half asleep, I noticed River walking past me with scissors in her hand. I asked her what she was doing: she said she was cutting the things that were wrapped around her hand. I assumed she meant her necklace she had made out of beads that she had been cutting earlier, cutting the string shorter after each bead. Yikes!

A while later, she was squeezing out milk from Silver's bottle into Silver's hair. 2nd rule of the day: No squeezing milk out of the bottle. And the 3rd rule of the day came after filling Mama's violin case with chalk. The violin case has all sorts of fun compartments to put things! Rule: No playing with Mama's violin case.