my daughter, the genius, made a leaf.

yes, we are fully amping up for fall.  my house looks like a pumpkin exploded all over it.  but that's the way i like it.  i take after my mom.  only hers looks like 30 pumpkins exploded.  but a pretty explosion :) anyway.  today leah and i decided to make a little fall craft - a "stained glass leaf". found on, none other, than my good friend Pinterest.

here's the link should you feel so inclined.

http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/fall/fall-leaf-craft.asp  

i love that she's at the age where we can do crafts now.  i love all things crafty.  i could never homeschool because i would only teach art all day :)  anyway, the link above is pretty self explanatory.  only i used clear packing tape instead of clear contact paper because that's all i had, and it worked nicely.  she's pretty proud of it, as you can tell :)

here is a picture of some of our other decorations.  to which leah has appropriately named the big middle pumpkin the "daddy punkin" the bottom medium sized one the "mommy punkin" and the top one obviously the "baby punkin".  jeff and i just thought this was astoundingly clever that she came up with that.   it must mean that she's some kind of prodigy child.  and has nothing to do with the fact that i read her "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" the other night. 

i'm pretty sure that's normal for parents to think their child is a genius, right?  my brilliant bff is conveniently a school psychologist.  so she knows everything about a child's development and at what age they should be doing what, and all that goes with that.  she always assures me that leah is smart.  come to think of it, she's never once told me anything negative, so she's probably just trying to make me feel good.  and that's fine by me.  it works :)  

i think jeff and i take it to the next level though.  as we eat dinner each night i tell him all about our day, we both stare at her in wonderment when i tell him that earlier she got her shoes on the right feet. obviously she's going to Harvard, we concluded.  although, actually, i hope she chooses standford.  that way i can go and visit her, and i prefer California to Massachusetts.  

and who knows what wonderful places halle grace will take us to!  she's just a little angel on earth.  probably the next mother teresa.  she's a great eater, sleeps 12 hours, and lays contently on a blanket while i swiffer vac up after the messy genius.  yeah yeah, i know.  take off the "my children are perfect" glasses.  and usually i do.  but sometimes i don't. :)