Emily is our little artist. It started with
this picture. Since then, she has loved to draw. She sits happily through church if she has enough paper and a good set of crayons. This little lap desk she got for Christmas has gotten a lot of use.
Today she spent her time creating art work for me and Joseph's bedroom door, since a picture we had stuck up there earlier had fallen down and never been put back up.
The girl with the crazy hair is the (beautiful) princess in her castle. I think the little blue guy is an alligator in a moat, and the green is foliage for camouflage.
After putting that picture up, Emily noticed how bare Caleb's door looked and made one for him.
I don't know why she writes backwards sometimes. It's pretty weird. Cool dragon though.
This is on Emily and Elinor's door.
Caleb really believes that those two kids are him and Emily. Close enough.
4 comments:
Her work its super! Rainbows and dragons are some of my very favorites. Way to go, Emily!!!
Besides artist, it looks like she's got a side-hobby of interior decorator. I'm proud of this beautiful niece.
Mirror-imaged writing is a common-stage in child development, though the reasons for it are not well known. The speculation is that when kids first learn to write they tend to learn words are mildly complex patterns of pen strokes - for which reason their initial attempts at writing seem to follow rules of orientation. As they become more advanced, however, they realize that letters are discreet units, and that the symbols they use in words actually means something. Once this happens kids seem to temporarily lose the urgency to write in 'proper' orientation: because letters are constant and interchangeable, children don't realize that their orientation is important. As I've heard it said once, a house is a house, regardless of whether we draw the chimney on the left or the right. Most studies I've seen suggest that left-right awareness is a learned phenomena, while up-down is innate. This may be why you seldom see kids Emily's age write letters on their side, but will often see them writing in reverse.
Time to try for the bookpeople bookmark contest. Check it out the deadline may have already past.
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