February 8th I ran out to take care of some things and left Mark with the kids and a project that needed to be done for school the next day. I left a piece of paper with a heart drawn on it, a pair of scissors and watercolors. I came home to a beautiful watercolor heart that Aidan cut out by himself while Mark held the paper for him.
I also came home to Aidan's first drawings. He has always been a scribbler, but never drawn pictures. In his words, "That's me driving my car when I'm older, and that's a little bitty tiny car. There's the road, and a little road and a bridge and a train." So he drew the car and added all the details, including headlights and hair, lol! This entire picture was HIS idea. Dad was home alone with the kids, and the boy decided to draw a picture for the first time in his life. Treasured FOREVER!
"And this is my tall family. That's me when I'm 6 feet long and bigger than Dada."
Aidan has been obsessed with height for a really long time. Every day he tells us how tall he is and sometimes he mixes up tall and long. From left to right it's Dada, Aidan, Daisy, Me, and Isabella. And he wrote his name top to bottom, lol. Oh, and those are heads with eyes and hair, legs and arms....we are apparently a family without bodies. :) First family drawing.
A few days later he decided he wanted to paint a rainbow.
The weekend before Valentine's Day we were out to dinner and Aidan was writing words on the menu. He created some beautiful letters that I was shocked he knew how to write. On Valentine's Day he decided he wanted to "make all of the letters". I gave him a crayon and a piece of paper and we sat together at the table. He didn't use any visuals to make his very first alphabet.
After the first attempt at K, he asked how to make a K so I showed him how to do it on another piece of paper and he got right back to making his letters. He wasn't happy with his first attempt at M and so he made the second one. My little perfectionist!
On to the next page. At dinner he made the most beautiful r I've ever seen from a three year old. Today on paper, not so much. He made the u underneath the t and then went back to the far left of the page to continue on.
Not too bad for being three years old!!! I LOVE this first alphabet of his and will treasure it forever!
