Sunday, January 24, 2010

Children painting, not on cookies

Gangee (i.e. Grandma Patten) managed to find an easel for the boys on the cheap for Christmas. Jonah has been a little slow to show much interest in coloring and painting over the past couple years, but has recently started to put brush to paper. Manny has been a little artist right off the bat. When my sister (Auntie Kara) came to visit a couple weeks after Iohan was born, she brought a coloring book with her for the boys. Manny selected a few colors for his pictures and went to town; some coloring pages are virtually covered with wax, without any white patches of paper showing through. Chicago winters aren't exactly my idea of a good time, but this easel is helping the time to pass a little more quickly.

They don't typically share the space, but it works (briefly, and somewhat infrequently).

Jonah is making either stegosaurus footprints or fireworks. Or, stegosaurus-footprint fireworks!
Finally, a little alone time.

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