As most of you (my three blog readers) know, we have started a new school. One of my favorite things about the school is the art class. I LOVE that this week she is learning about Henry Ossawa Tanner and learning how his art was different than Mary Cassatt's work...the artist that we learned about last week. And I LOVE that she has to do a project where she duplicates the style of each artist that we study. One of her projects was to show what she thought Edward of Edward VI as a Child would look like a little older with his family. I love her picture! I think it's great! Her assignment was to color it with oil pastels and she was not happy with how that turned out but I love it!
And one day, we were sitting and just chatting about the ocean and she sat doodling. I looked at her picture when she was done, and look at it! Amazing! (from a completely biased mother!!)
Well, as incredible of a little artist as I think she is, looking through these mother eyes, that's not a new realization for me or the point of this post. My new realization is that I think she has a little brother who is following right along in her footsteps! We were sitting in the living room a couple of weeks ago and Sawyer, who normally sits and scribbles right along side Addie Grace, brought me this. I wasn't even paying attention to him drawing, he was just sitting and doing his own thing. He came over and said, "Look what I did, Mommy! It's you!!"
And look!! IT IS ME!! Maybe not on my best day and with a really exaggerated wrinkle on my forehead (thank you very much, Sawyer!), and bald...but ME, none-the-less!!! This isn't something we've ever worked on or anything! It's just amazing to me!
He also drew this one... (and lest you get giddy thinking that he aged me enough to have a NEW wrinkle on my forehead in just one week, he told me this time that it was my hair!!)
And then he told me that he was going to draw a rainbow...AND HE DID!!
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I don't know. Maybe this isn't unusual for a 2 year old (well, 2 1/2 next month), but it's new and unusual for Sawyer and it makes me proud. Mainly, because HE is so proud. He's growing and changing so much and I love watching who he is becoming. He is a joy and I am so ridiculously thankful that he (and she) are mine!!
3 comments:
Ok, now I see! Since you got your blog all nice and caught up, you can pester me about mine!:'D
I love ALL of your posts! It's so fun to see your little videos too. Wish I could figure out how to do that!
I really want to hear more about how the homeschooling is going sometime. Why does everyone have to live so far south???:'D Maybe we could meet in the middle sometime.
The art pictures are wonderful and you will be so glad that you documented them! I could say much, much more but my comment is about to overtake your blog:'D
I think they're great!!
(We don't live south *wink*)
Addie Grace is really a gifted artist--and I'm not biased at all :-) I love all the artwork. And...way to go Saw Saw...He's already started school and doesn't realize it! You should be ridiculously proud of both of them, they have earned every bit of your ridiculousness (how's that for a word!)
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