Mommy's Art Camp for Very Poorly Children has only ever had one customer, but she's a REALLY FREQUENT CAMPER. I shake my fist at you, germs and plagues and diseases. Yesterday Maya was deemed too infectious for school but she was very jolly with the paints and crayons at home.
One thing she likes me to do is make a "coloring book" page for her using Sharpie on watercolor paper. I have to draw quickly or she gets, ahem, peeved.
I sense someone at her school is encouraging her to color within the lines. It does not come from me. I also think that, as her school is such a peace-love-n-happiness kind of place, no one is being bombastic about it. I suppose what I am trying to say is, wow, she's getting some good fine motor control.
Today's camping experience was a different story. Today the camper was much worse off and was weary and despondent and bedridden -- yet sleepless -- and she reasoned (almost tearfully; there was big pathos afoot) that videos of kittens were her only hope.
That actually worked very well. Thank you, youtube. She laughed out loud. Then she rallied out of bed, drew herself a cat and a mouse, wrote "cat", wrote "mouse", ate noodles, wrote "Noodles! Yum!" (her exclamation points have fat circles on the bottom, they are very cute and bubbly) and slept for 3 solid hours without coughing herself sick all the way through. Improvement!
awww -- poor kidlet but MY GOD that video makes me need a kitten! It's a shame Grace would eat it.
And can you promise me that you'll draw colouring books for my kidlets? :)
Posted by: amanda | August 07, 2009 at 08:42 AM
Except for the fact that Maya's sick (hope she's all better soon -- and take heart that with all the bugs she's getting as a little kid, she'll be a ragingly healthy adult), this made me smile and smile and smile. Lookit that kid, WRITING like a PRO! :-)
Posted by: debi | August 07, 2009 at 11:34 AM