Family, camping in blue grass
I was astounded to see a coloring page I had printed for Keeley colored in. Multicolored, but colored in. Like, in the lines for the most part (scribbled), but on purpose, not randomly across the whole page like before (for her deployed cousin’s care package)…
I had given up trying to explain (coloring) to her a while back because I figured she would get it eventually, and just gave her the above white board and a couple of markers at a time (she has to trade periodically, therefore, they have pretty even wear and don’t dry out, because *I* am putting them away, so the cap goes on) for several months of coloring now. I’m guessing her club colors pictures on a pretty regular basis. The sheets that come home are never colored though? She’s getting it from somewhere though. She had me write our family names down. Then she had me walk her through drawing everyone. She got the stick and the head, and then I reminded about arms and legs. Then she made a tent over all of us (red?) and then made (blue) grass for the outside, obviously. Most of the time, there is no point to her drawings that I can see, but I never comment about it, except for saying it is nice or pretty, etc, I just ask what colors she wants, and ask when she wants the page erased. I actually had not seen her draw a stick figure since our cram session before the doctors office in October. She’s been using her magna doodle thing a lot and drawing ‘ants in dirt, in a picture frame’… over and over again. It makes me giggle, and I tell her it is nice. She doesn’t get the sarcasm of me guessing what it’s going to be before she draws it. She just thinks I’m a mind reader I guess?
Anyway, these are the days of our pre- SCHOOL lives. The fun scribble times where no one tells you what is right or wrong. Where grass is blue and tents have a lot of points and mommies and daddies are the same height. 🙂 I don’t want her to lose this innocence.
Fun to watch them grow, though, isn’t it? I like the multipointed tent, it’s like a circus!
I have some very old things my children drew, and can’t believe it was the same kids when I look at the things they draw now.