family doodle time

 

after baths when we are burning time until bedtime or until Bill gets home we bust out the doodlers and we draw different things.

charlie said he didn’t want me to take a picture of his fish (Tarpon – he told us) yet, but I wanted to capture it incase a seestor erased it.

love watching the draw together. they will often ask me (or bill if home) to draw them things  - a bird, bug, butterfly, fish, rainbow, etc.

ellie.

claire likes to really get close and focus on little squiggles.

proud.

now he was ready to show me his Tarpon (Pappy teaches him about all of these different fish).

I didn’t snap a picture of it, but charlie had drew a rainbow trout earlier. I love that he knows their names.

this is when things get fun. charlie was going to show me a different fish (can’t remember what he said now) and as he was picking it up he clocked claire in her eye. she busted out screaming and then he felt bad and started crying (we are working on knowing how to respond when we hurt someone unintentionally). both kids were screaming.

he pulled it together to show me. notice the number 41 on the bottom.

happy again.

charlie drew ellie a fish. thought that was so kind!

charlie said “mom, I am drawing you a purse!”.

then added MOM to the top. he also liked the smiley face he added on the left.

I love seeing what Charlie creates on these. He does especially well with them because they are easy to erase if he makes a mistake he is not happy about. I love seeing the girls get their little fingers on the “pen” and work at writing. these are definitely coming with us to NZ.