Messy but fun...

My dad was given a shirt that says "World's Best Grandpa Hands Down" and came with paint so you could add hand prints of your grand kids. Super cute idea, well until he sent it home with me and asked us to take care of the hands. At first this didn't seem like a big deal at all. I got out some plastic plates, opened the paint and spread it around, had Reagan dip her hand in and on the shirt went a great hand print (she did a great job making sure it came out good). We got both of hers on there, hands washed, and all was well. Until I realized it was time to do Alex's. One look at him and that paint and I decided I needed daddy's help. So we stripped him down to save the onesie from death by red paint and assessed the situation. Matt came up with the good idea of q-tips so we didn't have to try and dip his hands in it. The plan was to have one of each hand in between Reagan's prints. We quickly realized we would be doing good to get one on there. He would not open his hand up for anything! We finally got it open enough to get paint on all the fingers. I leaned him down really close to the shirt and Matt was ready to press his hand down as soon as he opened it. Enough time went by waiting that the pain started to dry so on to plan b. Matt re-applied the paint and just forced his hand open and onto the shirt. Probably not the best hand print but you get the idea. He just looked at us the whole time wondering what in the heck we were doing. After we finally got a print onto the shirt it was straight to the bath tub since by this point there is paint all over him and me. I wish I had gotten a picture of this but I was trying to focus on keeping his hand out of his mouth and Matt was getting the bath filled and all the stuff we needed for that. But here is a picture of the final outcome. I think Poppy will wear it proudly!