Artist in Residence

It seems that Will has recently caught the art bug and spends a lot of his free time drawing pictures. And he's come a long way. We can now tell what he's drawing and he even adds expressions and details. This must be a 5 year old thing. I used to have to encourage him to draw/color and now he's all about it. Young Rembrandt, perhaps? Jackson Pollock? Only time will tell. Until then, here are some of my favs. He went through a house drawing phase:

This is the world with asteroids and rocketships going around:

Ghosts and otherworldly things:

He was in a map drawing phase for a while. X marks the spot!

Then he got big into drawing people so we have some fun depictions of "us". Archer added the balloon stickers below. He drew the parachute guys after Keith got to skydive with the Navy Leap Frog team. Very cool.

He also went through (is still in?) a big patriotic/ethnocentric phase and he draws lots of pics showing how America is the best and every other country isn't. Oh boy. Please note the American and China missiles heading toward one another. You can't make this stuff up. Great lesson, World Atlas!

I like the detail on the skeletons below:

And my favorite...I've been sick so he drew me a cup of tea to make me feel better. :)

Belated Christmas

Somehow it's already January 23rd (yikes!) and I have yet to post about Christmas. I'm anything but punctual these days it would seem. So I'll give the short and sweet roundup. We stayed local, Aunt Jill and Uncle Matt joined us, we had a snowball fight on the beach, built a "snowman" on the beach (out of some funky sure-to-be toxic pellet things), and ate, drank and were merry. The San Diego weather was wonderful and although Will really wanted snow, we were happy to substitute with snow from a can this year. The boys must have been good because Santa brought too many toys, as usual. Silly Santa! So after donating old toys to make room for the new, we are back in the swing of things. For now.

Boys with freshly decorated cookies for Santa

Making our toxic, bird killing "snowman" on the beach

Snowball fight on the beach

Presents! Star Wars, construction trucks and an aircraft carrier, oh my!

The boys got Just Dance Kids for Wii and it was a BIG hit. Not sure if the adults or kids enjoyed it more.