The Prolific Artist

You LOVE to draw.  Not necessarily "coloring", but you LOVE drawing, be they original compositions or something you copied from something you have seen.  Of course, most of them are "Angry Bird" themed, seeing how you love them so much. Every morning when you wake up, the first thing you do is go to the table where your paper and crayons are, and start on a masterpiece.  Every day, there may be at least 3 or 4 completed works, both on the back and front of the paper.

Every Friday, after the ladies' bible class, you love to draw on the whiteboard - such a large canvas for a little boy - while we wait for Daddy to come get us.

This last Friday, the theme was Pirates and Buried Treasure.  The one guy is in a boat, approaching the island, and his boat has a steering wheel on it.  The pirates on the island have jolly roger hats and bandannas.  Of course, there are also Palm trees, sea gulls, clouds, a day-turning-into-night sky, and of course, an "X marks the spot".

And I wanted to post this before it got lost in all the backlog.

You drew these pictures on Thanksgiving day after watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.



Can you spot the balloons, umbrellas, float, sun and christmas tree, among other things? Oh, and the paved road... :) And this "Turkey Hand" thing, was all your own doing.  I wasn't even in the room when you did that. :)



I was telling Daddy the other day that so what if you don't color meticulously inside the lines.  Your spontaneity and imagination is what I love most about your art work. 

Santa

We were at Hillcrest yesterday for "Breakfast with Santa".  We had been counting down the days on your calendar, and as we were approaching the church building, you were practically yelping, "I'm sooooooo excited to have breakfast with Santa!!!"  The day before, you had asked us if ( the real )Santa was going to be there. We said something like, "Probably.. and if he can't make it, his helper would be there"

So we get there, and amazingly enough, there was not a single person in line to see Santa.  So we put down our coats and zoomed over there . ( Of course, a line formed IMMEDIATELY after that. )

You were a little in awe that er, Mrs. Claus knew your name, and at first, was a little shy at approaching Santa, but once on his lap, you were quite confident.

 

When we asked if you would like to tell Santa what you wanted for Christmas, you said, "A ball", which is kinda strange since we just got you one a couple of nights ago.  Of course, as we were leaving later, you said, "I need to tell Santa I changed my mind! I want a Pogo Stick instead, because I don't have one!".  Oh dear, how does one deal with such lamentations!

After running around a bit and going to the craft tables ( more on mummy's blog ), you noticed that Santa was walking out the door, and wondered where he was going, but waved goodbye to him anyway.  Then, you went over to the "Santa Station" and peeked behind the makeshift walls, and exclaimed, "Mummy, Santa left his sleigh behind!!"

 

We told you that we were sure he was coming back for it, and not to worry.

Then we went off to Petsmart to get a few things, AND SANTA WAS THERE TOO!

You were incredulous. We surmised that Santa had left because he needed to get some grub for his reindeer since they were his pets.

:P

Flu Shot, Check

We may be a little late, but you had the sniffles a while back and we wanted to make sure you were well before we brought you to the doctor. We didn't tell you what was up until we were at the doctor's office building.  You didn't take it very well when you found out why we were there.  There was some cajoling that needed to be done, and we all walked into the building with our fingers crossed.

Needless to say, when the time came, there were tears and wailings and hiding under a stool at the last moment, but you were a brave boy ( even thought you said you weren't because you were afraid - now THAT was a brave thing to admit ), and with some big bear hugs and a couple of tootsie roll lollies later, all was forgiven. :)

Better late than never

Aye, we still be playing catch-up with October. :)

We haven't carved a pumpkin in, oh, er, a NUMBER of years. Possibly from way before you were born. But this year, Daddy was determined that you have the opportunity to participate in the carving of a Jack O Lantern. You thought it was pretty cool :)

Some days are still pretty warm, but most night are getting much cooler, and here you are, rockin' your PJs. LOL

Can you believe we go to the mall like, twice in a year?  We pretty much go to Walmart for our every day needs. So, the other day, when Daddy needed to go to one of the stores at the mall, we went off and did the "fun" stuff! hehe. You even met another little 4year old boy at the indoor playground thingy, whose name was Jaxon! You thought that was really something.

On the school front, a few weeks ago, we read "The Glorious Flight: Across the English Channel with Louis Bleriot" and had fun learning about planes, England, France, aviation etc.  We try to get what we can from the book, even if it is just for exposure at this point.

I really should be way more diligent at trying to describe what an amazingly sweet little boy you are.  And such a silly one at that. AND who is proud to be silly :)

Being the silly billy gilly willy nilly dilly that you are, you LOVE Mo Willems' Elephant and Pig series as well as Jan Thomas' Dust Bunny ( and others ) books.  :) You are getting to be really good at reading, and usually YOU are the one reading these books to ME!

There may be an odd word or two that you may have a little trouble with, but usually, you read it with such nuance, and you catch just about all the jokes.  Plus, there's rhyming in the Jan Thomas books, which is always big with you :)

 

Sometimes you slyly move some of the books from the "read" pile over to the "to read" pile so we can read them over and over and over again :)  And usually I'm glad you do, because I love these books too! They're full of sweet and kind stories, which happen to be hilarious. 

 

I'm glad you appreciate the lighter side of life, and that you LOVE books and reading - you still love to snuggle up in my lap to read the books at bed time, but sometimes all I get is a face-full of hair, now that you are so tall! :)

I often remember back to when we would read "Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you See" over and over again every night, with you in my lap, and me being able to see over your head :)