When Hyrum had his birthday party, I helped him draw (meaning I loosely held his hand while drawing the outline, and he did all the details) this dinosaur which we copied to make the invitations. The original drawing you can see in black. After that, he very meticulously drew in every single bone you see within the dinosaur outline. Don't you love the skull and the backbone? Hyrum is a very detail-oriented little guy, as you can tell. he even labelled the bones for us, to make sure we knew what they were.
This priceless piece of artwork is headed for Grandma and Grandpa (can you see their names up top? It's hard to read the letters because he thinks they need to be connected with lines, like cursive). I couldn't send this off without documenting it first, though - I love it!
This is Eliza's most recent family portrait - isn't it charming? I especially love the bird's happy face and the nest with 3 eggs up in the tree. The square yellow thing is a picnic blanket, and the 5 circles are our plates with burgers on them. On the other side of the paper she is writing a very imaginative story to go along with her picture - pure fiction, but it flows so well it's as if it really happened. I am loving her stories and pictures, and I'm so glad she enjoys doing it - I loved to do that sort of thing when I was young, but I don't remember being able to write pages of stories at her age! It's wonderful to see.
My kids are all growing up so fast - and Eliza's starting to realize that Hyrum is getting much bigger and better at things, which is beginning to worry her. She used to bully Hyrum quite a bit, and we'd always tell her to watch out, that someday Hyrum was going to be bigger than her and he might turn around and beat HER up. The other day Eliza came to me with a worried expression on her face. "Mommy," she asked, "Is Hyrum bigger than me yet?" I answered no, and she replied, "Oh - well I just thought I'd ask because he just beat me up when we were wrestling! When is he going to be bigger than me?" Needless to say, Eliza's been treating Hyrum a little more fairly these days....
Okay, one more thing before you grow weary of me going on and on about my kids....I overheard Eliza say this to Hyrum as they were practicing their "gymnastics" (translation: jumping, twisting, and leaping off the one sofa in the house on which that sort of thing is allowed);
"If you want to be a superhero, you have to practice EVERY DAY and EVERY NIGHT. I'm not kidding either. It's A LOT of work!" You tell him, Eliza. Maybe someday he'll grow up to be a superhero just like you! :-)
I love the art work. Your kids are too precious!
Posted by: Tiff@Three Peas | October 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM