Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Painting With Pudding.

Last night we let Ben "paint with pudding." The concept is simple; I just stripped him down to his diaper, gave him a big bowl of pudding and a few paint brushes, and set him on a piece of butcher paper out on our back porch.

I highly recommend this as a fun, cheap, summer activity. A box of pudding costs 79 cents. Add three cups of milk and voila! If you're going to attempt this with your child, absolutelypositively do it outside where everything and everyone can be hosed off afterwards. Not only did Ben end up covered in chocolaty goo, there was quite a bit of collateral damage.

Ben had a little trepidation at first. "Is this even allowed?" I painted his name just to get him started.


A few minutes later, he was totally digging it.



He panicked a bit when he realized he'd stuck his foot in the pudding. Not exactly sure why this bothered him so much, given what the rest of his body looked like at this point.







Mmmmm. This just keeps getting better!



The party was all over once he tried to stand up and dance around in the pudding. That stuff is slippery! Tim hosed him off while I went inside to run the bath water.



After a good dousing, we let him water the lawn a little bit. I might blow this one up and hang it over the mantle. I don't care how much it embarrasses him, I can't get enough of that dimply little booty!



Ben obviously loved this tasty little exercise, because this was his response to having to come in for a bath...



Luckily, Daddy is especially funny at bath time so Ben rebounded pretty quickly.



Thanks to Anthony for snapping some impromptu pictures during our little activity. I have a feeling this one will be a repeat!

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