Yesterday, after he and Leo had drawn through nearly a whole ream of paper, Tomi went to the middle of the living room and began dumping the toy boxes out one after the other, organizing the contents of each one on the rug before moving to the next. In the meantime, Leo took yet another piece of paper and began to draw again. Or that's what I thought. He soon called out, "Eh-ohw! Is Leo!" and indicated that it was time for another look at his work. When I did (look), I was shocked to see... an L! Then he said, "Tee! Look!" and drew the next letter. Their drawings recently took on real, deliberate form, but we were still surprised to see this happen so quickly. Later on in the same day, Tomi began drawing very precise drawings, using strokes like those needed for letter-writing. I'll try to snap or scan a couple of their drawings in the next few days...
And here are a couple of surprises in my terrace/indoor gardening career... First off: 2 of the 4 orchid blooms from Joël and Eric's lovely birthday gift of 14 months ago have come back; and the crinkled leaves are working themselves out, ever since I figured out that they were coming in that way due to lack of liquids. And secondly: the hibiscus that Aunt Rosie & Uncle Dale gave us a year and a half ago hasn't ever stopped blooming and blooming and blooming, and sometimes seems to go from one bloom to the next (each a short-lived but spectacular one) for months on end without a break. And thirdly: the Marguerite de Printemps that Jean-Philippe gave me last February, and which went from a tiny snippet of flowery shrubbery to a shrub with hardly an ounce of help. It's great to have had so much luck of late, after so many withered attempts in the past!
Yesterday, after he and Leo had drawn through nearly a whole ream of paper, Tomi went to the middle of the living room and began dumping the toy boxes out one after the other, organizing the contents of each one on the rug before moving to the next. In the meantime, Leo took yet another piece of paper and began to draw again. Or that's what I thought. He soon called out, "Eh-ohw! Is Leo!" and indicated that it was time for another look at his work. When I did (look), I was shocked to see... an L! Then he said, "Tee! Look!" and drew the next letter. Their drawings recently took on real, deliberate form, but we were still surprised to see this happen so quickly. Later on in the same day, Tomi began drawing very precise drawings, using strokes like those needed for letter-writing. I'll try to snap or scan a couple of their drawings in the next few days...
And here are a couple of surprises in my terrace/indoor gardening career... First off: 2 of the 4 orchid blooms from Joël and Eric's lovely birthday gift of 14 months ago have come back; and the crinkled leaves are working themselves out, ever since I figured out that they were coming in that way due to lack of liquids. And secondly: the hibiscus that Aunt Rosie & Uncle Dale gave us a year and a half ago hasn't ever stopped blooming and blooming and blooming, and sometimes seems to go from one bloom to the next (each a short-lived but spectacular one) for months on end without a break. And thirdly: the Marguerite de Printemps that Jean-Philippe gave me last February, and which went from a tiny snippet of flowery shrubbery to a shrub with hardly an ounce of help. It's great to have had so much luck of late, after so many withered attempts in the past!
