Alex Makes an Ornament

During one of my lunch breaks the other week I went out shopping. Since I work from home a lot, I try to make a point and get out of the house during the week for lunch or to walk around a store or just do SOMETHING outside the house. On this particular day I went to The Christmas Tree Shop, which surprisingly enough is open year round and sells stuff OTHER than Christmas decorations/suff.

So anyway, I was walking around this store and I came accross this DIY ornament kit for $1.99. It is one of those plaster ornament kits that you can mix and put your handprint in or whatever. I thought..How cool to have a mold of Alex's handprint from his first Christmas so I bought the kit. I obviously did not think this all the way through because it didn't quite work out the way I thought....more on that later.

So on Saturday, after we put the Christmas Tree up we busted out the kit and proceeded to do the DIY ornament....

This is the three of us before making the ornament.....All very happy.

This is attempt #1. Please notice that instead of placing his hand NICELY into the plaster he grabbed a whole handful of the stuff. Thank goodness this stuff is non-toxic... Needless to say the handprint did not come out this time.

Please notice the handful of plaster.....and the beginnings of a VERY unhappy baby.

Attempt #2...I think he is biting Henry's wrist at this point....He was obviously done with the ornament making at this point.

In the end Mommy got the handprint ornament that she wanted. All it took was some patience, tears, and a hell of a mess to clean up, but it was worth it. Now we will have a reminder forever of how small Alex's hands were in 2008! I think I should go back and get a couple more kits...you never know how the family will grow in the future. It would be cool to have a handprint of each kid at their first Christmas...