Handprint Kits

So, we have acquired several handprint kits. Don't make the mistake in thinking it would be "easy" to do. We did the one kit yesterday and used how much water in said to make the plaster and it said to wait 3-5 minutes -- TRY 20 MINUTES! Then after all the waiting and you have your sleeping baby there ready to imprint, well, turns out that moving them around to get in position to make the imprint & also hold their hand there will wake them up. Not to mention that they don't just keep their palms out flat for you, but then close their palm into the plaster (great, more to clean up!) all the while screaming bloody murder. Ok - so that looked like crap and we smoothed it out and just did the foot (she didn't exactly like that either, but it went better than the hand.)

I have another kit that you do a hand print & a footprint & a picture. I'll think I'll wait to do that until we have Skye take pictures, so they all are from the same time period.

And we recently acquired a whole other set of handprint kits that you do from 1 years old to 5 years old. You do one each year & there is not one for birth. So, that one will sit in the closet for a year and hopefully we will remember it for her birthday next year.

Pictured here is the handprint kit tower. It's that little pink think in front of the huge red bag. This was a gift that was sent to us that was ordered from Amazon. Apparently they chose to have it gift wrapped and some smart-ass at Amazon decided to gift wrap that little present in the monsterous gift bag (it's actually a nice gift bag, made of cloth with fabric ribbon ties.)
Pictured here is Uncle Jason inside the gift bag. Keep in mind he is 5'10 and 220 pounds. I think that the gift bag will be used to give someone a tricycle in the future, maybe a rocking horse, or a new car.