Future motivational speaker
I really should post here more often about the older offspring, but they're just too cool these days to do anything I need (or want!) to take a literal or metaphorical snapshot of in order to memorialize it (before it becomes yet another victim of my increasingly faulty memory).
Youngest is 8 - and a half!, very important, that half - now. As we sometimes tend to do to our children, he's earned the label 'the artist' of the crew. Kid draws CONSTANTLY. And they're great. I had to buy a nice spiral bound artists' journal so that he'd keep it all in one place because I kept finding computer paper he'd taken out of the printer, decorated in some fabulously adorable manner, and left in some random place in the house. This way I know I won't lose any of them (what. you haven't seen the stuff, I CAN'T throw ANY of it away!) and I'll have a general idea in the distant future how old he was when he drew it. (There've been phases that could help me figure it out - for years it was all Mario and friends, all the time. Then he discovered the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and adopted that style. You should see the family portrait of us done that way - awesome. Nowadays it's something the older brother(s?) turned him onto to - http://www.homestarrunner.com/characters2.html That little wrestler dude and Trodgor currently festoon all and sundry. He even painted his Pinewood Derby car to look exactly like that VCR on the page I linked. Won Best Paint Job for it in the contest his Cubscout troop had - even though I seriously wonder if some of those cubs have a clue what a VCR is. As usual, I digress).
He doesn't have the sketch book when he's at school though. And he gets bored at school. A LOT. I think maybe one in 20 papers makes it home without some sort of embellishment. Usually many, MANY embellishments. As you might suspect, his teacher asked him to stop. An understandable request, especially when he wasn't getting the actual school work done.
A couple of weeks ago a paper came home - and English paper, with some of the finest penmanship any of my children have ever exhibited. The entire page, filled with it. Even the right-hand margin. Where he'd written, very neatly (if occasionally incorrectly), this note to his teacher (formatted to match):
Dear
Ms. Barnes,
the no
dralling
ruel gets
me bord
out of my
mind! Give
me librty
or give
me deth.
No = sleep
yes = No sleep
wich do
you chose.
Tell me
wich) ):(
(under this was drawn a v-browed angry emoticon face with steam coming out of its head)
from
Y.K.W.
(*You Know Who)
I may frame it.
Youngest is 8 - and a half!, very important, that half - now. As we sometimes tend to do to our children, he's earned the label 'the artist' of the crew. Kid draws CONSTANTLY. And they're great. I had to buy a nice spiral bound artists' journal so that he'd keep it all in one place because I kept finding computer paper he'd taken out of the printer, decorated in some fabulously adorable manner, and left in some random place in the house. This way I know I won't lose any of them (what. you haven't seen the stuff, I CAN'T throw ANY of it away!) and I'll have a general idea in the distant future how old he was when he drew it. (There've been phases that could help me figure it out - for years it was all Mario and friends, all the time. Then he discovered the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and adopted that style. You should see the family portrait of us done that way - awesome. Nowadays it's something the older brother(s?) turned him onto to - http://www.homestarrunner.com/characters2.html That little wrestler dude and Trodgor currently festoon all and sundry. He even painted his Pinewood Derby car to look exactly like that VCR on the page I linked. Won Best Paint Job for it in the contest his Cubscout troop had - even though I seriously wonder if some of those cubs have a clue what a VCR is. As usual, I digress).
He doesn't have the sketch book when he's at school though. And he gets bored at school. A LOT. I think maybe one in 20 papers makes it home without some sort of embellishment. Usually many, MANY embellishments. As you might suspect, his teacher asked him to stop. An understandable request, especially when he wasn't getting the actual school work done.
A couple of weeks ago a paper came home - and English paper, with some of the finest penmanship any of my children have ever exhibited. The entire page, filled with it. Even the right-hand margin. Where he'd written, very neatly (if occasionally incorrectly), this note to his teacher (formatted to match):
Dear
Ms. Barnes,
the no
dralling
ruel gets
me bord
out of my
mind! Give
me librty
or give
me deth.
No = sleep
yes = No sleep
wich do
you chose.
Tell me
wich) ):(
(under this was drawn a v-browed angry emoticon face with steam coming out of its head)
from
Y.K.W.
(*You Know Who)
I may frame it.