Found A Use For All That Energy…

…Got those two to paint the walls in our home 😀

(Well, she started first, because Rockstar had some school work to finish up…)

Ok right, here he is. Fussing about a first smudge of white paint on his finger.

Predictably, the Miss gets her older bro very comfortable with paint smudges.

They finish the corridor (note the damage he’s taken)…

Which raises my eyebrows when I walk by again while he’s on paint break (yes, to do some Math 😛 )… (He thought taking his shirt off would get rid of all that paint on his back.)

We have all these scratches and smudges around the home because well, kids. Add to that JD liking to sleep with her paws up against the wall too… Except we couldn’t put her to much use with the paint carnage painting.

So we made her pose unhappily for a pic (she hates having her picture taken)

For real though – these kids didn’t really think painting the walls was work, whereas obviously us grownups would, so I try to let them do as many of these tasks around the home as possible… Caveat – it doesn’t mean that much less work so much as “different” work – because while you may not be painting the walls yourself, you have a lot more cleanup 🙂 But the kiddie entertainment and enrichment factors I feel are priceless.

She did her own room, too…

(Note signature handprint)…

(Got a little carried away here though…)

As did he…

…And it’s about 2am and the photo upload is now down so more pics of the home projects akan datang…

ps: No children or dogs were harmed in the making of this blog post…

This the paint they’re using

Sorry I don’t have the name, I found this in Chi Fu market and we really like it – HKD 190 for that little tin and comes off skin relatively easily with water – I just need to put the kids in a bathtub with goggles and Mustella bath oil (Rockstar has sensitive skin)…  The stall lady highly recommended this as what they use around pregnant mums etc… I don’t like regular paint with the kids, I think the smell and chemicals are really bad, so we use this for touching up all the smudges around the home (btw, Kings so cannot stand marks on walls that before the kids he had our part time helper repaint the walls once a month because of JD’s paw or ball marks)…