The girls help me with work-related things on occasion. They enjoy crafty-type projects and at 10- and 12-years-old, they can do as good a job as I can now (and sometimes better).
So when they offered to make another lollipop tree for the Raising Maine info table at the Bayside event this past weekend,
Contest-essa and I took them up on their offer.
The girls made the tree on Friday night and woke up the next morning to lollipops all over the rug because our cat Lupus decided to knock out at least half the pops.
Apparently lollipops sticking out of styrofoam are like the pipecleaner toys L. made for him -- something to be smacked around, a lot.
We should have named Lupus (which means 'wolf' in Latin and is the namesake of a character from the
Roman Mysteries book series that the girls like), the "mischievous-good-time-boy" instead.
He entertains us a lot with his playfulness but the girls were not so amused with his latest antics.
Lupus was duly scolded by the girls but he did not appear to be remorseful. In fact, he jumped around the living room playing with his pipe cleaner toys and sneaking peaks at the girls fixing the tree.
He was definitely making a new plan of attack.
But the girls put a stop to his plans when they fixed up the tree and immediately put it in to the car. No more fun with lollipops for Lupus.
And the tree made it to the event without further incident.
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