It's done! It's FINALLY done! Jazmyne had to make a creative map of TN for her 4th grade Class and it's worth 1/2 of their final grade. She had plenty of time to do this and by the time she was done, 3 projects could have been created! It may not seem as hard as it looks but lets just say we hit many road bumps along the way! We had originally decided to make a 3D map with clay and paint. She outlined the state of TN drew all the rivers and mountains on the foam board before filling it in with clay. Well you can't turn you back, not for one second in this house. Parker climbed up in the table and decided he wanted to help with the project and scribbled ALL over! Once that was fixed/erased she made a 3D clay map and we put it up to dry. The next day I took it down so she could paint it and it crumbled into a million pieces! Oh my goodness, I felt so bad!! So with only 2 days left to finish this project we made an emergency run to Hobby Lobby and re-evaluated her plan for this project. Clay was just too messy, took too long, and we didn't want to risk another disaster. So we decided on glue-on turf. It looked easy enough, I mean all you have to do it paint on the glue and sprinkle on the turf .... right? Well let's just say it looks a lot easier than it is AND it's WAY more messier than the clay. Once it was done last night, Jaz and I looked at it and were very impressed with the results. It definitely turned out alot better than we both expected! Even though this was Jazmyne's school project, it reminded me of those dreaded projects I had to do when I was in school and well, I'll just say I am so glad it's done!!! Jaz agrees and was so excited to take her masterpiece to school today!
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This picture reminds me of back home (California). It makes me a little sad because Parker is just over 2 years old and this was his first experience with sand, at an indoor sandbox. Growing up in CA so close to the beach, the sand (and the beach) was something you knew and experienced from a very early age. I have 25 years of memories of the beach and Jazmyne has a few also. I miss those times where Jaz and I would get up and go to the beach where we would spend hours just hanging out and playing in the sand and the water. Once you were at the beach it was as if you were in a totally different world. It was so calming. I wish that we could just get up and take that short drive to the beach but that is something we had to leave behind in CA. I can't wait to take Parker to visit CA again and I look forward to letting him experience the beach. Who knows, maybe we'll even visit FL sooner. I know Sean wants to show us around where he used to live :) Back to the picture above ... as you can tell, Parker was extremely unsure about the sand at first. After a few minutes he was loving it!
