Shark Week Therapy...and a Craft!

I am a firm believer in making motherhood fun. I think that one of the ways you make it fun for yourself, is to share things that you love with your kids. Random fact about me, I really like Great White Sharks. I think it is mostly in a freaked out fascinated way that I like them.

A few weeks ago at our school book fair I let the boys all pick one book. Hunter insisted on a picture book about sharks. I thought that was a great ideas as I myself really think sharks are cool. Then we did a scout activity at our house and the boys had to do a report on a creature that lives in the ocean. Palmer of course wanted to participate. He did a report (complete with a picture he had drawn) of a shark.

When the scouts left, my boys wanted to watch a shark documentary and their "smart" mom had the bright idea to check Netflix to see if there were any on there. Well, not only were there some, but my favorite all time shark documentary was on there from "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel called, "Air Jaws" (your already cringing aren't you?) People don't get eaten in this little show, but it shows the Great White Sharks leaping out of the water to eat seals (and it is SO COOL!). Why in the world did I think that wouldn't traumatize my kids??? So we started watching and their eyes were HUGE. I thought they were thinking it was cool and then I started hearing them say "poor seals" and then Hunter said he didn't want to watch it any more. Oh my goodness what was I thinking?!?!
So Palmer decides that he wants to draw some pictures and this is what I see when he is done. It is an ocean scene.
complete with a shark eating people (with their eyes x-ed out, in pools of blood...) and fish.
We also recently went to the zoo with the scouts and got to see "Nature's Nightmares." Palmer especially enjoyed the piranhas...can you tell? Can you see their sharp teeth?

He has also started reading the "Goosebumps" books. He really doesn't handle scary things well and we have had some doozies of nightmares. So pretty much I stink and may have to invest in therapy for this child (okay not really, but the poor kid has really been through it.)  Thank goodness he agreed that we could put "Goosebumps" away for a while.
Oh a different note Palmer recently came up with a craft that he wanted me to share with you. He cute up some straws and threaded them them on some yarn to make a necklace. He was pretty proud of it and loved it to pieces (have you noticed that my boys are always wearing their undershirts in our crafting pictures? This is what they like to wear to bed and we must always craft when they are in their pajamas. I promise they do have other clothes :)

Close up version. Great work Palmer (and please forgive your mother for being so clueless)!