Anna and Andrew's Art

 Anna is quite the little artist.  We draw A LOT in this house.  Tree huggers would absolutely loathe us.  I can't save every picture she's ever drawn or our house would be bursting at the seams.  I decided to take pictures of her drawings to keep a good document of them all.  Some I save, the really good ones.  I think I saved this one shown above.  How darling is that?  It's Little Red Riding Hood.  She even has a red cape/hood. How about those cute lips, eh?  She wrote "bump" on the bottom but I can't remember for the life of me why.
Little Andrew's pictures have started to show some progress too.  He can now write the letter "H" and "A".  His self-portraits have a circle for a head, usually two eyes, some hair, and something that slightly resembles a stick figure.  It's pretty good for two years old.  I guess it should be good with all of the hours that these two spend on coloring.  Their favorite thing to do is make pictures for their friends, then run to their houses to deliver them.  After delivering about 20 pictures, I finally have to tell them to save some more for the next day.  They think it's a great service because it's making their friends happy.  ;-)  That makes me happy.

 Not too bad huh?  This one even has a mouth.

 This picture is over two months old.  Here is Daniel's first bite.  He is a CHAMP at eating.  Let me tell you. He's got that open the mouth when the spoon gets close thing DOWN!  He just eats, and eats, and eats.  You can see Andrew in the background still wearing a diaper.  We must have potty trained him shortly after that.  Andrew was SO, SO easy to potty train.  I can't say that for my other child.  I will say I was dreading potty training because of the horrible time we had with our first born.  He knocked it out of the park though. After just two days he was even staying dry at night.  Life is better when you only have one bum to change.

 He looks pretty satisfied doesn't he?

 I LOVE this picture.  It's Rapunzel, in case you couldn't tell.  Anna loves the movie Tangled.  She loves to dress up like Rapunzel and then go brush her hair so that it can get long.  If you look in the picture below, she has a little wand with Rapunzel's picture on it.  She traced the star and then filled it in.  So cute!  I love how her Rapunzel even is quite shapely.  She did so well with it.

 We sometimes have BBQs with our neighbors outside.  The kids love it, as do the parents.