Creativity is NOT for the Squeamish

Debbie Allen shared an important discovery...

"Out of limitation comes creativity."  

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Henry Matisse acknowledged that...

"Creativity takes courage"

The past week or so, Kylie has been exercising her creative streak.  She has definitely crossed lines and she is certainly courageous in her creative expression! (as you will soon see)

The other day, Dan was REALLY wanting to watch a football game (it is rare that we have the pleasure of sitting down and watching a FULL game- The Princess does not like to be second fiddle to the TV).

So, as we prepped for and arranged our day around the football game, we noticed that Kylie disappeared upstairs to her bedroom.  We turned on the baby monitor and listened to her play sweetly.  All was well.

As the first quarter began, we heard the princess pitter patter down the stairs. 

The female child that emerged from the stairwell looked suspiciously like our Kylie but we weren't quite sure...

This is who greeted us:

  
 She had changed into a Fleece nightgown, fairy wings and a cone shaped princess hat.

She was so proud of her ensemble (that's fancy for outfit).  She felt scrumptiously beautiful and did several modeling turns to allow us to view it from every possible angle.

Then she took her throne ...

What can I say? The creative process is exhausting!!
We oohed and aahhed appropriately, praised her fashion sense and scrambled for the camera!!  I am so GLAD we captured this moment!!

This sweet fairy princess in a wild and crazy nightgown will always and forever be our baby girl.

And... I was super proud of Dan for choking back his laughter  inner frog and for playing the part of a True Prince. 

But... this was not the end of her Creative Genius!!

Kylie then decided that her daddy, Prince Charming, was looking quite plain and thought she needed to spruce him up a bit!

Much to Prince Charmings dismay,

Out came the finger nail polish...

I held my breath as I wasn't sure how my husband would react...

But I was thrilled when after a few deep sighs, he surrendered and announced that nail polish remover would make everything alright again, and let her have her way in painting his toes. 

(I adore that he is so secure in his manhood)

She was very diligent and the painting toes activity kept her busy for quite a while.  It was also a great exercise in hand/eye coordination.

I was encouraged by her intense focus and amused at my husband's willingness to be her mannequin.

but....

If you get squeamish easily, you might not want to look

at.............
    this.........
        photo.......
    

She didn't do too bad of a job. However, even with fancy Cinderella blue nail polish, hairy toes are just plain  unattractive!   (I still think it must mean something that his second toe is longer than his big toe)

Dan was so engrossed in the football game that he let her paint his finger nails too!

He was a great client and the princess nail tech was super excited that she had such a willing and compliant customer!

I think she did a pretty good job.  This was really her first time ever painting someone's nails. She tolerated the fume smell very well and was very patient in coating each nail.

At least we know she can have a career in nail fashion to fall back on. Even Barbie needs manis and pedis.

And yet, she still had not worn out her creative genius....

The next time we saw her she had changed her nightgown and looked like this....

She had dotted her face with rubber stickies from my office supply drawer...

Seriously... What is my child thinking of when she does these things???

She sure does bring joy to our home! (and keeps us on our toes)

A few other creative endeavors...

she is really into building cup towers...

We had worked for hours with her as a younger child trying to teach her to build like this with blocks but she wouldn't have it.  Blocks had to be lined up in straight rows.  BUT give her cups and she can build a tower to the sky!!  Who knew???

Dan was so impressed with her architectural skills that he attempted to teach her an alternate way to to build a cup tower.  She was mostly excited when it fell over...

I know you all are super impressed...

The creativity is just ooooooozing out of our pours around here....

"Creativity is piercing the mundane
to find the marvelous"

Bill Moyers