Drawings

Madeleine continues to enjoy coloring the little details in her Dora book, although lately she has taken to giving everyone blue eyes rather than the more disturbing red or black. In addition, she recently began giving the characters painted nails; either that, or she's cursing everyone with Raynaud's Phenomenon. Either way, she is really quite impressive with her fine motor skills. She is most certainly taking after her artistic father rather than her mother who still, as an adult, is incapable of cutting in a straight line.







Julia has also been busy with artwork, coming home from school with the following project:



Apparently the point of the project was to write and draw about an incident in which each individual child did something nice. And true enough, Julia did help Madeleine pick out her outfit this very morning, which was not only being nice to Madeleine, but to me as well, as we were actually able to all get dressed and out the door on time for school. I especially like Julia's portrayal of Madeleine's dresser, with its knobby drawers. And... speaking of...

While Julia was at school, Madeleine had a play-date at our house with her friend Anja. The two often like to try on Madeleine's dress shoes or look at books up in Madeleine's room, so when they headed up there, I figured they would be doing more of the same. Instead, they decided to get smart and crafty and combine their mischievous abilities to pull out Madeleine's dresser drawers in such a way as to make steps. They literally had each "step" pulled out a different amount, with the bottom drawer pulled out the furthest. They then climbed up on top of Madeleine's dresser and proceeded to pour baby oil all over themselves. Naturally, I immediately ordered them down (and lifted them off myself so as to avoid any more body weight being put on the drawer steps), but I wasn't fast enough to prevent them from transforming into greasers, slicked back hair, oily faces and all. I have since removed all smeary objects from Madeleine's room. No more diaper cream, oil, baby powder, or anything of the sort. Good thing I already keep the nail polish hidden. I can only imagine how Madeleine would look if she decided to give herself blue fingertips.