Maile has suddenly shown an interest in creating things. She gets ideas in her head about what she wants to make and then mistakenly calls on me to help her. Her directions are very specific. Draw a princess with a dress and a crown. We don’t usually get any further than that because this is the extent of my drawing abilities:
She gets SOOOO frustrated with me. I think she has something a little more fancy in mind, but she can’t get the image out on paper either. When she finally has something she can work with (like a heart, I can do those quite well) then she sets off to make it exactly the way she wants it. If, God forbid, something goes wrong with the art project she has in mind she starts crying, “something’s wrong Mommy!!” and usually there’s nothing I can do to fix it and she’s just pissed. I think I may have a perfectionist on my hands.
Yesterday she was busy coloring ALL day long. And correct me if I’m wrong (or just agree with me because really that will make me like you more)…but I’m pretty sure my daughter is the best four year old colorer that ever existed!!
Take a look at yesterday’s hard work:
WWWWOOOOWWWWW!!! Right!?!