Little Creators

Chloe and Isaac love to color and draw and write.  All of it.  Chloe has really enjoyed writing this last year.  She spells fairly well and feels the success of spelling correctly.  It's fun to witness.  We still help her plenty, don't get me wrong, but the wheels are turning and pieces are connecting.  That's all we can ask. 

Isaac's coloring has come so far in the last year.  He was a scribbling boy who used one color on entire pictures not too long ago.  But now he enjoys the variety of color and drawing 'from scratch' without a coloring book page.  I love that imagination of his.  Whatever it looks like to us is only a fraction of what it looks like to him.  He is so proud and I love it. 

As I've said many times, since this blog is also somewhat of a scrapbook I am going to try to keep pictures of some of their works of art on here.  This way I know I'll have proof of the art forever.  I still have a stash of projects up in their closet.  But some pictures that I know might get lost or torn or spilled on can be photographed and the memory can live on. 

This first card is one that Chloe gave to me when the twins were about four months old.  I can't even express how it made me feel.  This girl warms my heart in so many ways.  She is so extremely caring towards others and is so accommodating for her age.  Her heart is just spilling with generosity. 

I know Royce helped her with the spelling but the message came from Chloe. 

100% my Chloe.

Our refrigerator is a typical fridge for a young family.  Any piece of art makes an appearance on the fridge and stays until the twins rip it down.  We wouldn't know what to do with a fridge that didn't have clutter on it.  I'd probably think we were moving or something.  It would just be weird. 

The next place Chloe and Isaac hang pictures is in our bedroom.  Our bed is kind of tucked away and this side wall is right on my side of the bed.  Who doesn't love looking at artwork like this when they wake up?  Tape away, kids, tape away!

I sketched an outline of a helicopter for Isaac and he painted it for me.

Chloe painted this picture.

Isaac's spotted dinosaur.

Isaac also started a sticker collection.  He puts the stickers on the end of his bed, on the way up the ladder to his top bunk.  I normally don't like stickers on furniture, but this is absolutely harmless and he is so proud of his collection.  I think I mostly love the way he says collection.  So articulated.  Coll-ect-shun.

We have bulletin boards downstairs with artwork.

 And an art table (built by Grandpa Al Stewart) that is always SPILLING with creations. 

These are the latest.  The kids got new markers for school so we of course

had to try them out at home first. 

 Chloe drew the kids. 

She is the fashionable big sister, Isaac slightly smaller, and the twins in what must be MY shirts.

And the dogs, Lexi and Charlie. She started with just the living beings but then added the rain and umbrellas. Umbrella. Another word I love hearing the kids say.

They say "Um-be-brella".

I don't correct them.
It's too cute.

They'll figure it out when they learn to spell it.

Even our blue dogs have um-be-brellas.

Isaac drew this picture for Royce.

He knows dad is spelled D-A-D.

Look above, and see he wrote

Isaac ADA.

LOVE IT!

Isaac drew this picture for me. 

It's a picture of our house.

And it's the happiest home I've ever seen.