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Ah, what could be sweeter than a child's drawing of his family? Happy smiling faces, the cute stick arms and legs...um, Gavin? What are those extra parts you've drawn?

OH!!

Great, an anatomically correct family picture. And believe it or not, if you turn the papers over, there's little circles on the back side for, well, you figure it out.

"I will make a list about it!"

Gavin has been very into making lists about everything this week - I'm thinking they might be making some sort of lists in his class at school and that's why he's into it. As soon as he gets home after school he gets a pad of Post-It notes and a pen and decides what he's going to make a list about. He picks which words he wants to write and I help him with the spelling.

Yesterday he told me a big long story about how some little kids don't know about God so he was going to make a list about God so if anyone didn't know they could look at his list. Here it is:


The jist of it is that he wanted to say that God is big, holds the world in His hand, made us and protects us. I am so thankful for a school that is reinforcing what we have taught Gavin at home. (I could do without the 20 or 30 sticky notes all over my walls, fridge, doors, floor, etc. though!)

"Kind of like a hen with a tail"

That's Gavin's description of this picture he just drew. :)

I think it's so fun watching kids' drawing skills emerge and develop! I remember the first time Gavin drew a stick person (well, a loose rendition thereof) - it was so exciting to see something other than scribbles on the paper! Now when he sits down to draw something (which isn't too often - he's not really into just drawing/coloring) he has a definite idea of what he's drawing and it usually ends up looking at least a little bit like what he intended. Very cool.