More Creepy Drawings

More creepy drawings by Madeleine:

This picture began as a drawing of two little girls.  Then Madeleine decided to add a night sky with star stickers and a monster who is sitting on the heads of the two girls.  The monster is the big brown whirling blob with vacant, cavernous ghoul-eyes, which leads me to wonder who the soul-sucking green guy with pointy teeth to the left of the monster is supposed to be. 

Shudder.

For any of you who would like a fun "I Spy" game, see if you can find the following in Madeleine's lower case letter writing above:

1. Julia's name, all in lower case (hint: one of the letters might be backwards)
2. The phrase "stole my stickers," in kindergarten spelling, as Madeleine must have asked Julia to spell it aloud to her, and then written the letters down by dictation.
3. Madeleine's name, all in lower case. (This is the hardest one...)

The monster story continues on another piece of paper:

MADELEINE: They're walking up the stairs, because they're frightened of the monster.
ME: Oh, okay.
MADELEINE:  Yeah.  And that is why BEASTLY is capturing the emerald KEYS.
ME: Who's Beastley?
MADELEINE: (pointing) Uh, HE'S Beastly.

A-ha!  The green soul-sucker from picture #1 is supposed to be Beastly, who happens to be a character from Care Bears.  That actually makes a lot more sense now:

The original Beastly

At any rate, even more reason to be creeped out by Madeleine:

ME: (hoisting Madeleine up to put her into her car seat after we left the Y) Get in your seat, honey!
MADELEINE: But Mama!  Don't stand on the yellow MARK, because people DIED under there.
ME: What yellow mark?
MADELEINE: (pointing to the yellow line of the parking spot we were in) THAT yellow mark.
ME: Okay.
MADELEINE: Yeah, because people DIED under there.
ME: How do you know people died under there?
MADELEINE: Uh, because I can see HEADS poking up from under the ground.

Oh.  That's why.  That's not a disturbing vision or anything.

At least Madeleine is not into creepy music.  She was so distressed over my CD of Elliot Carter string quartets, which is modern, atonal classical music at its pinnacle, that she went and turned the stereo off and removed the CD all on her own.

ME: Madeleine, why didn't you like the music?
MADELEINE: Because.  It's TOO boring.
ME: But what didn't you like about it?
MADELEINE: That it was like: (singing) Dun-nun-nun-nun-nun-nun...

I tried to figure out what she DOES like.

ME: Okay, so tell me.  What's your favorite thing?
MADELEINE: Uh...I don't know.  Mama, you pick it.  It has to be a kind of CANDY.
ME: A kind of candy?
MADELEINE: Uh, yeah.  A kind that is STRIPED.
ME: A peppermint stick?
MADELEINE: Yes!  A peppermint stick!

I don't believe Madeleine has ever had a peppermint stick in her life, let alone a candy cane, but as we just recently read "Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick" this afternoon, I think I can see where the connection comes from.

On second thought, I think it's all a metaphor.  Madeleine doesn't want to listen to sharp, angular, atonal music.  Instead she wants minty sweet ear candy.  What an ingenious way for her to indicate her musical preferences.

Okay, I'm off to go suck some green emerald keys off of a blobby brown ghoul-monster.  'Til next time.