Back by popular demand (yes, really).. here is some more of the children’s art.
Cormac (the 3 year old) is in what Montessori refers to as a ‘sensitive period’ right now, and it is for cutting shit up with scissors. Everywhere we are finding vandalism and little scraps of things.
This one is quite nice because it ended up looking like origami. It was a school notice I had not yet read.
Cormac must be doing a lot of ‘parallel line’ work at Montessori, too (ie. an exercise to teach kids how to be able to write) because I found him practicing them on paper towels at home.
Lauca (the 7 year old) really likes to practice drawing techniques like those you see illustrating children’s books at the moment. She’s quite interested in cartooning, so it’s all quite stylised at the moment and with storylines.
This is our family, I know, we’re so nuclear.
Here is her illustration of a house of chaos. I like how the hen and chicks have come inside the home and that I am having a sleep-in. A lot happens when I sleep-in.
Views of our kitchen garden.
Our beehive.
My sister has moved back here with her partner to have their first baby. I’m very excited.
And they’re renovating their house. Poor things.
Last weekend we went with some friends to wander about in the vegetable gardens of strangers. We found it quite amusing but the kids were bored silly. Oh kids, I can recall about a billion weekends just like this growing up, where we tramped about looking at boring stuff our parents apparently found interesting. Tradition.
blue milk 
Wonderful! I love how Bill clearly doesn’t shave (as revealed by Lauca in the nuclear picture).
You observant thing, you.
Wee Chum’s favourite thing to do, the thing I give him if I just want fifteen minutes to myself that ALWAYS makes him squeal happily, is to sit at the kitchen table with a pile of junk mail, a pair of scissors and a glue stick. Could be an idea for Cormac’s love of cutting things up!
Ooh I like that idea.
Sometimes I turn a blind eye and pretend that my nearly three year old is not snipping school notices or more important things, just so I don’t have to deal with the consequences of taking the scissors off her…
Love your sister’s huge pregnant belly.
Paper cutting is a popular activity in our household too. But we have a five year old doing most of it.
The three year old decided to “clean” books the other day, while I was trying to have a nap. Wiping them with wet tissues. Very helpful. Worth it for the nap though!
Do you have twins you never talk about, in a bunk bed in the attic?
Just love children’s art. But especially like the belly photo.
I’m looking forward to starting some traditions of our own in our home. For now, I’ll stick to making toys.
I love the House of Chaos drawing. As for sensitive periods I think I may be permanently stuck in one. x
What is it about pregnancy that makes people want to renovate? My maternity ward buddies and two friends are all doing both at the same time.
Nope.
Send that first photo to the school when you ask them to email in future.
Dear Blue Milk-
I love the drawings and cut up pieces of paper! My daughter is 2 and has been leaving some interesting objects around the house, I also photographed them and blogged about them some weeks ago: http://berlindomestic.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/little-hands-2/
Really lovely.
Best
Lily Mae
The nuclear family pic and the one with the inside chickens are so adorable! Also, I have serious envy over the color of your floor in the first photograph.
Yay! Yay! Photos! Art!