My Little Picassos

The kids really enjoy making art lately. Especially Miles. He has really turned into quite the little painter. He paints every week at preschool and all last year the paintings were pretty much the same. A few lines of different colors painted here and there. Well this year he's really stepped it up a notch in the old painting department. He still paints every week but they are actually real pictures of things! I love seeing what he creates and the pile of 'art to keep' is getting a little large. In fact, I really need to start photographing some of these pieces and saving them because I want to remember them forever!! They are adorable. Last week he brought home this little number. The teachers posted this picture on Facebook of him painting a Valentine picture of his dad. For his dad and of his dad. Love it!

Miles painting his "Dad" for Valentine's Day at school. It is a Valentine that "looks like Daddy."

I also started buying canvases on sale at Michaels along with some not washable paint. Yes, I now realize this was a bad bad decision as Evie loves to get paint on everything, and who buys paint that is not washable for a 2 and 4 year old. Seriously. Anyway, we pull off the table cloth, put on some music, old rag shirts and smocks and create art. The kids really get into it. It keeps them occupied for at least 10 minutes, and we have some fun wall art to hang up.

Evie making her abstract piece.

Miles painting "The Backyard".

Little Friends

These two have been playing an awful lot together and getting along!! Evie even played her first game of Candyland and Spiderman Match game without destroying the game and without Miles freaking out. It is nice. They play a lot of little pretend games together too, usually on the weekend mornings when the pace of life at our house slows way down. Some of their new favorite games are pretending it's Christmas Eve and Santa is coming - they drag their blankets and pillows out into the living room and make a bed on the floor and read books and hang out together. Another is playing school and Miles is the teacher of course. I love it when they play these little games together without noticing that I am listening and watching. Evie just has stars in her eyes for her big bro. And he is pretty good at protecting his little sister too.

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