Artsy Anna

I love Anna's artwork. I could save every single little piece of everything she colors, scribbles, or glues on. Here are some of the current masterpieces hanging around the house.

My ever creative mother-in-law helped Anna with the two larger paintings. The first is a picture of our house when it is snowing outside. They used balloon painting for the snowman and Anna chose and placed all the other pieces and parts. Anna and I made the winter hat together and she had so much fun picking out the felt and decorations.

We found this book at the library earlier this week. It is a cute story about a girl who can't wait for it to snow, so she makes paper snowflakes until the real snow comes. We read the book and made our own paper snowflakes that now hang in our front window.



Anna used a special pair of scissors (again thanks to my mother-in-law) that will help her learn scissor and cutting skills. She grips the handles and squeezes since it is too difficult still to use regular scissors. For the snowflakes, she made small snips in the paper and I helped her finish them into shapes.

Anna drew pictures of each of us in the family - all by herself. No prompting by me at all. I was actually playing with Emily while she drew and one by one, she proudly brought me each member of the family.

Daddy, Mommy, Anna, and Emily

We received this next craft as a freebie. All the pieces were there and we created a cute caterpillar. Anna loved it. We then wrote a little story about Crawly, as we named him. Anna made up the story and I wrote what she said. You can click on the picture to enlarge it to better read her story. Her imagination is so great!



Otherwise, all is well. Emily is great, still working on crawling and she is very pleased about the whole idea. Racquetball for Brent tonight with a friend. Quesadillas for dinner. Hopefully to bed early for me. I'm pretty tired from middle of the night wake-up calls. That can be a whole 'nother post. But I know it's getting bad because I tried to wipe away the dark circles under my eyes with make-up remover. Oh...well...there's no make-up there at all. Rats.