The World According To E, Ryan and The Girl

the rest of the story

Ever wanted to know what Jack looked like at the bottom of the hill?

 

On shelves soon!

At school, E had to create and design a new product.

So, who wants Rainbow Coco Moco cereal? There is a pot of gold in every box!

 

Lily and Daddy

Lily: Hey Daddy! Look at this!

Me: Lemme see.

Lily: That's you and me!

 

Oh

Lily: Daddy, look what I drew!

Me: Wow! That's beautiful! Um...Who is that?

Lily: Oh. I have no idea.

Daddy's not ready

Lily brought me some dress-them-up sticker art she did.

Lily: Look Daddy!

She handed me the sheet and wandered away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Nice!" I thought as I looked the first one. "Lily put everything in the right place."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"A really nice Asian-looking outfit. How cute!," I thought as I looked at the second one.

And then I got to the third one...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"What the!? That girl better pull her dress up..."

 

 

E art

With my help, E likes to set up big home-made tents in the house...tents that are made by taking a blanket or two and putting them over some chairs. He asked if we could build one and I told him that we could, but we needed to clean it up at the end of the day and put all the stuff back where it goes.

E: What?! Put it all back up!? This is like a work of art! Would you tell someone to put a work of art up?

 

Ryan's panda

Ryan wanted you to see this.

I have posted 15 pieces of art by E and Lily on the blog, but none by Ryan, who usually crumples or deletes his work prior to anyone seeing it.

As with most other things, Ryan was always behind the "normal" age progression for drawing . I remember he would try to draw Ernie from Sesame Street (an early favorite) and quickly hand the crayon back to me or crumple up the paper within a few moments. 

It always seemed like he was saying "you can do it better, so you need to do it." 

(Lily and E, on the other hand, drew on EVERYTHING. The walls, the furniture, toys...and me.)

Even today, when Ryan doodles on the iPad and I try to look at it or save it, he quickly deletes. I'm not sure if he's embarrassed about how it looks or shy about expressing himself artistically, but he's never really wanted to share his art work.

 A few days ago, though, and I'm not sure why, he handed this picture to his Mom, which we had not seen him drawn, and told her to "put this on my blog." (That's you, peeps!) So here it is...Ryan's Kung-Fu Panda.

Is he finally proud of his work? Does he want to make sure his work is included with his siblings? Does he want to read all your nice comments?

I’d love to write something more profound, but I don’t know...perhaps all of the above.

 

hair schedule

E has started to become more and more aware of his hair and how it looks. I wrote recently about his trying a new hairstyle.

This is a visual schedule E completed for himself to track how he wants to comb his hair each day of the week.

Please feel free to copy this idea and complete your own personal daily hair schedule.

 

 

 

 

 

e's kite, part 1

At the start of this school year, E had to make a get-to-know-me kite. It was divided into sections where he had to draw things about himself, what he likes about school, etc. Here is the first section:  "I am looking forward to making new friends." 

I love how he labeled "me" and "new friend" as a visual aid.

 

 

 

 

the perils of toddler art

Lily excitedly presented me with art she made at school.

E: Look at that! He's so cool! I see eyes and a mouth and an arm!

Lily: Daddy, that's a car. You got it upside-down.