Slushie the one foot snowman

Our youngest daughter and her two children arrived this afternoon for the holiday week.  What an amazing afternoon and evening it was.  We started with playing in the little bit of snow there was left since they live where there is no snow.  Snowball fights and building a mini snowman named Slushie complete with a mini carrot for a nose.

After warming up and having a few snacks, my granddaughter and I headed to my studio. She wanted to try everything,know what everything was for and who had created each art work.  She tried several different brushes, watercolor painting, Q-tip painting, pastels, markers, colored pencils, stamping and painting with nail polish.    She completed 6 journal pages ( see some below).  We had great fun.

My grandson tried each and every piece of workout equipment (the "gym" is next to the studio in the basement) and lifted every weight in the room.  He even tried his grandfathers inversion table, with help from his mom of course.

When we were done in the basement, we joined in a conga line to come up to the first floor where my husband joined us in the dance around the kitchen.

Next we played with Barbie and friends.  I have a Midge and a Barbie from the late 1950's, a Francie from the early 60's and another Barbie of unknown origin and timeline.  The dolls put on a fashion show for us.  While this was going on, the men (my husband and grandson) were playing in their amazing shared world in Minecraft.

At some point we had dinner and desert and even danced to a couple of songs.  Oh yes, and a bit of wrestling followed by meditation too.  All in all it was an amazing and delightful afternoon/evening.