Let's Go Fly a Kite

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G says to me with much concern and enthusiasm as if he was the teacher, "You should really try to stand up to go potty, mommy. It would be great!"

Art Class

Today G and I had our first Art Class with Miss Anita. I was really impressed, and G had so much fun! We are both going to learn so much about art, and since it's really something that I've always loved and have a somewhat small background in, I think I will enjoy it that much more.

Today we made a craft - a frog out of a paper plate and painted with tempura paint.

Then today's artist was Piet Mondrian. She spoke about vertical and horizontal in talking about his black lines as well as the primary colors that he used.

I also learned that G can use scissors. He cut out the hot air balloon all by himself and did a great job! I have to admit I took away the scissors months ago when he cut a large hole in his pants and I haven't even given the scissors a second thought. My goal is to let him make all of the projects himself, and I say that only because I noticed the mom next to me doing her son's entire project. Of course it looked perfect, but it wasn't his. Anyway, I wasn't tempted, but I want to make a point not to and let him learn.

We can't wait for next week. I hear that Jackson Pollack is everyone's favorite, and I know why. :) Splash, splash. Not sure if and when we will learn about him this 6 week session.

Something more than scribbles

My son has never been a colorer. I hear stories of other people's children who sat in their highchairs at 18 months and colored while mommy made dinner, not mine. He's been running since 11 months old with not a lot of interest in coloring except for a few minutes here and there, so needless to say that I was almost in tears when G drew this for me during our "iced in day" out of the blue. It was something more than a singular scribble on a page or EVERY color in the crayon box rubbed all over the page to where everything is black.

A pretty, pretty rainbow!

Watch it wiggle

We've been in the mood for jell-o lately. So G and I have been making jigglers. So fun. We were "creative" the first time because I only had seasonal cookie cutters, so we made astronauts out of gingerbread men and then stars for a space theme. Then we bought hearts for Valentine's Day. A pan a jigglers never makes it back into the refrigerator after we cut them out. We devour them all!

AA Museum

Brad made it mandatory to take G to the American Airlines museum a few weekends ago. Most of it was ok for a non-plane person like me, but they did have an original airplane that had been bought recently, restored and brought back to the museum. It's still airworthy and had the certificate posted inside. G loved to sit inside the plane.