Next came a couple of ornaments. We made jingle bell snowmen and beaded candy canes. However Samantha decided that the candy canes were boring so now they are beaded “S”s.
We also made animal puppets, foam snowmen, and pom pom cat and dogs….
It is difficult to catch up once you get behind. At this rate we will still be finishing our crafts after Christmas is over. We have managed to do a color by number with pencils that the kids worked on in the car with my mom while I was getting my allergy shots. Mom finished Joshua’s (toucan), I finished Samantha’s (cat) as well as doing one of my own (butterfly). Timmy hasn’t finished his tiger but he won’t let me finish it for him. Here are pictures of the drawings.
Another craft we did was beads that were placed on a card than ironed together to fuse. It was intended to be three dog faces but the kids were creative and we found that we had a lot of leftover beads so we have flowers, rings, rainbows, snakes, and dogs.
More crafts to follow….
Since we looked at the All-Star 4159 we decided that we really would like to have a third bed for the kids. We realized that there was enough room on Nathan’s side of the RV if we removed the back medicine chest and sink and the top half of the clothes cupboard. So… we removed everything and had Carlyle Lehman at Focal Wood Products in Nappanee build us a bunk for Samantha with a cubby and shelf above the bed and a storage cupboard underneath the bed. A wall closes off Nathan’s side of the room and is the side wall for the storage cupboard. We have so much more room. I was able to put ALL of the books that have been at the end of Timmy’s bed in the cupboard as well as all of the items that were in the original cupboard. Here are the pictures of Samantha’s new bed…
In the first picture you can also see that the back carpet has been removed. Here is a picture of the living room area right after they finished it.
I am loving the new RV. It is nice to be able to bleach the floor after messes are made and it is VERY nice to have all of the kids going to bed together and not having toys all over our room. :)
Sunday I took Joshua to the doctor because his cough was getting worse. He has a touch of bronchitis so he is now on antibiotics. On our way back to the RV we stopped at the Best Western in Goshen and checked in for the work week. Since we were going to be at the hotel until Thursday I chose the crafts to take with us based on what wouldn’t take a lot of room or time. It was so late on Sunday by the time we finally got settled that we chose to do two crafts on Monday. On Monday the weather warmed up a little and because of that the dry snow that was on the ground started melting enough that it was sticking together so…. the kids finally got to do the “snowman” craft. This was my first snowman as well so it was a lot of fun. My family spent a Christmas in the Poconos visiting my grandparents one year but the snow wouldn’t cooperate. My brother and I made a snow sculpture on the porch of a snowman laying down next to a boombox. We titled it “Florida Snowman on Vacation”. It was an experience getting to make a snowman that stood up this time. Here are pictures of the snowman project. Nathan kept himself busy throwing snowballs at me as you can see one in the air in one of the pictures. :)
The kids were still in Disney mode I guess because they decided the snowman needed Mickey ears. Samantha finished it off with a Mountain Dew can she found as a bow so she decided it was Minnie.
When we came back in the room we finished the day off with making mosaic ornaments, essentially sticking jeweled stickers on ornaments. :)
Today we spent time checking out the RV progress. The floor is torn out and the tiles should be finished early tomorrow. They are hoping to have everything finished by next Monday or Tuesday. We misunderstood the cabinetry. We will take the RV by on Thursday afternoon so he can take measurements than he will spend a few days making what he needs to make. We will take it back to him next week when Newmar is finished so he can install the new bed. Hopefully everything will be finished before Christmas so we don’t have to come back in January. If not we are already scheduled for the first week of January at Newmar to finish what we want to have done. Although we have stopped in Monday and Tuesday I didn’t think to take pictures. I will try to remember to take some pictures tomorrow.
December 4 was Samantha’s turn again… she chose Santa Faces. They were foam heads that you had to stick the face parts on. December 5 was Timmy who chose a paint by number picture. Joshua went for the abstract and Timmy gave up because it wasn’t perfect. Here are pictures of those two crafts….
December 6 was Josh’s turn but we didn’t get around to it until late so mommy chose a quick project. It was a wooden penguin on a stand that they colored with markers. Again Timmy took issue with his not being just how he wanted it so my mom finished his for him. :)
