A Morning with Five Kids

My sisters-in-law had errands to run one morning and Chris and I were at home with five kids –ages 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2.  Chris was working, so basically I was babysitting.  I brought along my go-to entertainment pack – my face-painting kit, –and we had some fun.

Big K and Little K both preferred to have the “art” on their arm…  Big K wanted a dinosaur and could not be swayed to have something else.  I’d never done a dinosaur before, but it turned out well, with enough directions from Big K on what he wanted the dino to look like.




I suggested a spider for Little K.  He agreed, but wanted a spot of blue, instead of red on the spider’s back; then he wanted me to draw a web with the “sticky parts.”




Josh wanted a full face paint.  He wanted to be a superhero and could not decide which one.  He asked me to make one up.  I didn’t want to make him as scary-looking as the ones that I did before (see here and here).  Originally, I’d planned to draw a simple lightning bolt on his cheek, but he said that that wasn’t “superhero” enough.  I then decided to draw a sun on his other cheek and told him that he could be a superhero who could control the elements. He didn’t like that. He wanted me to take away the sun, so I painted over the sun and put in another lightning bolt.  He wanted a mask, too, so I added one, except that it looked like glasses.  I thought he looked pretty cute, though, don’t you think?




The girls were easier.  They knew what they wanted from the get-go.  Both wanted butterflies and flowers.  Here are the girls with their butterfly and flower faint paints.

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Josh and Big K entertained themselves acting out Star Wars scenarios. Meanwhile, Little K, Baby K, and Zoë took off the armrest covers and pretended that they were raincoats.

Chris and I survived the morning with our sanity intact. It was quite fun actually. The kids had their usual share of bickering, teasing, fighting over toys, but it was really lovely seeing them all play together and enjoy each other’s company.  I wish we all live closer and that we can get together more often...