My dear children

{Love}an entirely huge understatement-> to paint.

and color for that matter

everything, without so much as the slightest exclusion of walls, doors, baseboards, tables, couches, clothing, arms, legs, faces... anything that appears to be a blank canvas, begging to be brought alive with colorful art.

Therefore making it quite the regular experience for this proud mommy to come into the room and be pleasantly surprised at their ingenuity and imagination

that keeps them busy time and time again-occupied by beautifying shoe boxes with platefuls of paint

{completely of their own accord I must add}

And waxing up mountains of papers, tubes, canisters, coloring books and cards with boxes of crayons

Making fish tanks out of cardboard after reading library books about how to care for pet goldfish

And loving it so much in fact...

they will paint anything. Anything.

Even a used apple juice jug from the trash.

And I love it.