Just sittin’ outside, hanging out on the stoop and making up songs about… stuff that’s outside.

I keep finding Lewis in the middle of some grown up activity – reading books, cleaning the stove and here, brushing his teeth.

Boy, do our kids love their gackoos. Even before Lewis was doing anything but irritate Art he would gladly share a gackoo with him. In fact, Art’s bed is the first place Lewis goes when he’s upstairs. He likes to grab Art’s gackoo off his pillow and just lay on his bed. And, clearly, he also like to lay on Art.

I may have mentioned this before but I am just starved for anything that comes close to a drawing or some kind of representational creation from Art. He’s SO not into crayons or making anything out of stuff… He really just likes to manipulate his materials. He’s a scientist! He likes to see what happens when he does this with that, etc. But I still am super curious to see how he would draw, say, a tree or me or whatever. He was using a marker the other day and I asked him if he would draw a picture of papa and he made a circly type thing and said, “Here’s his big head…” and then he just got into scribbling and making the page black. That’s my boy. But here’s some of his new stuff.

First of all, this tent coloring thing is really a big leap for Art. He used more than one color! And look how he colored the stakes!

This was just a silly gluing project we did at home.

And here, if rotated 90 degrees, is a flower he made at school. I was really excited about this one!