Thoughts of a child
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We are going through a major spring cleaning process in the house. You all know how hard it is to spend time going through things and deciding on what to let go of. My closet always has to be edited. When we renovated, I thought I could minimize my closet space. I reduced my shoe cabinet by two-thirds, leaving only one-third of shoes I really wear. It's been two years since my major purge and now all the shelves are just too full for their own good. I don't get to see what's behind anymore. Read about well-dressed women and they all say the key is to edit your wardrobe. So we are doing just that.
The kids' toys have overtaken much of their space as well. Three kids plus birthdays and Christmases add up to major clutter. We've shared a lot of their toys already. But there are still way too much in our little crowded space. So even they are asking for more space. Sophia is the proponent of this spring cleaning idea. She's been pushing me to have another garage sale. And everyday, she asks me, "can we give away some toys so we can have room for new toys?" So the reasoning is a bit off. We're dealing with that.
This morning I saw this on the dining table. Sophia made a check list.
Thank goodness I always have a camera my iPhone on me. I get to document all these crazy but adorable things around me. I keep most of their art work and all their letters. I know one day I will look back and marvel at how innocent and creative they were.
This is Sophia's letter to Patrick just last year.
A lot of my friends always refer to Lily as my daughter who likes to draw. But I always have to correct them and say that both Soph and Lily love to draw. They both can fill up a sketchbook with their doodles and drawings. Lily became known as the artist (through this blog) because I wrote about how she loves to draw lashes on everything. Sophia's drawings, according to her teachers, are pretty advanced. She drew depth and foreshortening when she was in prep. Now she does shading and she can represent volume. The other day she said, "Babies can do abstract art very well. They just draw and it's abstract." Then Lily says, "I should learn how to draw abstract then." Lily's talent is raw and completely out of control. I love that about her. She doesn't even think before she draws. She just attacks the paper. And she draws very fast. Like a mad genius. She comes up with the most outrageous scenes. I can't say one is better than the other. Both are really good. And we can't compare because they are different ages
Every little girl loves princesses and fairies. And Lily is no different. Except that she also drew a sick princess with other girls crying for her. I know... it looks a bit spooky. She's just 4. I think this is influenced by Sleeping Beauty.
This is a Halloween scene with shooting stars.
One of my favourite drawings by Lily. This shows a happy alien family. They are either throwing asteriods or sucking them in. I love her depiction of earth. And note, the mommy alien has pretty lashes, and so does the daughter.
This is her scene with more alien abductions. Notice the little duck being taken away by the space ship? She also made a girl alien and a "cute, fat alien." I can't wait to see what she comes up with when she learns how to write.
There are more. I try to file them and store them in a way that'll make sense in the future. Hence our clutter problem. Most of them are scanned and photographed. My parents were very good at keeping memorabilia. My dad's like that. He loves keeping things and looking back at them. He kept a lot of our letters and art work. Recently he scanned some of our letters. I had a good laugh while going through them. The kind of laugh that makes your belly hurt and your tears roll down.
I was in Grade 2. Thank goodness I got a better education after this. Haha.
Please don't judge my parents. I didn't really drink champagne when I was a kid. LOL. This was the seventies...
My brother was obsessed with matadors. He would force our neighbour's kids to pretend to be bulls. He mastered the art of waving his towel like a matador.
Hanni was obviously a creature of TV even at a young age. This is the song of "Golden Girls." Haha. Lame!
This is the one that just killed me. I laughed a good five minutes staight. Tipol (Pauline), our youngest sister. Haha.
My dad has this filed in his flickr album as "thoughts of a child." I'm amazed he kept them all.
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We are going through a major spring cleaning process in the house. You all know how hard it is to spend time going through things and deciding on what to let go of. My closet always has to be edited. When we renovated, I thought I could minimize my closet space. I reduced my shoe cabinet by two-thirds, leaving only one-third of shoes I really wear. It's been two years since my major purge and now all the shelves are just too full for their own good. I don't get to see what's behind anymore. Read about well-dressed women and they all say the key is to edit your wardrobe. So we are doing just that.
The kids' toys have overtaken much of their space as well. Three kids plus birthdays and Christmases add up to major clutter. We've shared a lot of their toys already. But there are still way too much in our little crowded space. So even they are asking for more space. Sophia is the proponent of this spring cleaning idea. She's been pushing me to have another garage sale. And everyday, she asks me, "can we give away some toys so we can have room for new toys?" So the reasoning is a bit off. We're dealing with that.
This morning I saw this on the dining table. Sophia made a check list.
Thank goodness I always have a camera my iPhone on me. I get to document all these crazy but adorable things around me. I keep most of their art work and all their letters. I know one day I will look back and marvel at how innocent and creative they were.
This is Sophia's letter to Patrick just last year.
A lot of my friends always refer to Lily as my daughter who likes to draw. But I always have to correct them and say that both Soph and Lily love to draw. They both can fill up a sketchbook with their doodles and drawings. Lily became known as the artist (through this blog) because I wrote about how she loves to draw lashes on everything. Sophia's drawings, according to her teachers, are pretty advanced. She drew depth and foreshortening when she was in prep. Now she does shading and she can represent volume. The other day she said, "Babies can do abstract art very well. They just draw and it's abstract." Then Lily says, "I should learn how to draw abstract then." Lily's talent is raw and completely out of control. I love that about her. She doesn't even think before she draws. She just attacks the paper. And she draws very fast. Like a mad genius. She comes up with the most outrageous scenes. I can't say one is better than the other. Both are really good. And we can't compare because they are different ages
Every little girl loves princesses and fairies. And Lily is no different. Except that she also drew a sick princess with other girls crying for her. I know... it looks a bit spooky. She's just 4. I think this is influenced by Sleeping Beauty.
This is a Halloween scene with shooting stars.
One of my favourite drawings by Lily. This shows a happy alien family. They are either throwing asteriods or sucking them in. I love her depiction of earth. And note, the mommy alien has pretty lashes, and so does the daughter.
This is her scene with more alien abductions. Notice the little duck being taken away by the space ship? She also made a girl alien and a "cute, fat alien." I can't wait to see what she comes up with when she learns how to write.
There are more. I try to file them and store them in a way that'll make sense in the future. Hence our clutter problem. Most of them are scanned and photographed. My parents were very good at keeping memorabilia. My dad's like that. He loves keeping things and looking back at them. He kept a lot of our letters and art work. Recently he scanned some of our letters. I had a good laugh while going through them. The kind of laugh that makes your belly hurt and your tears roll down.
I was in Grade 2. Thank goodness I got a better education after this. Haha.
Please don't judge my parents. I didn't really drink champagne when I was a kid. LOL. This was the seventies...
My brother was obsessed with matadors. He would force our neighbour's kids to pretend to be bulls. He mastered the art of waving his towel like a matador.
Hanni was obviously a creature of TV even at a young age. This is the song of "Golden Girls." Haha. Lame!
This is the one that just killed me. I laughed a good five minutes staight. Tipol (Pauline), our youngest sister. Haha.
My dad has this filed in his flickr album as "thoughts of a child." I'm amazed he kept them all.
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