Our boys are difficult to pull away from their "workspace" in the corner of the living room. And their teachers tell us that things are the same at school. There is so much being produced that we honestly can't keep track of it all. I'm trying to devise ways, but the work piles up faster than I can tag and file it away, or send it to those for whom it was made, or simply get it up on their art string (just above their workspace).
The pieces above and below are among the squillions of things that made me laugh or brought a tear of parental sentimentality or pride or both in the past couple of days, plus the birthday card Tomi spontaneously made for me, after their daddy told the boys that the next day was my birthday, and so on. There was a funny moment at the beginning of the conversation, when Jean-Philippe said, "Demain, c'est l'anniversaire de..."* and Leo yelped, "De NOUS!" When JPhi said, "Non, de maman!" Leo's face crumpled and he wailed, "NO-o-o-o-o-o-o-ON!" Within a minute or two, though, the boys were as excited as though it were their own birthday. Pfew! Anyway, it was impossible to choose from the piles and piles - it quite honestly made me exhausted just thinking of doing so - so I simply scanned the first things I laid my eyes on in MY workspace (whence the boys' insistence on calling their art table "ower work. space" (= our workspace)).
by Leo > from left to right > Tomi, Mommy, Leo & Daddy
by Tomi > a psychedelic skyful
by Leo > a Pokémon cat with hearts representing the four (nuclear) family members, subsequently cut out with a pair of poor kiddie scissors (the boys are looking forward very much to their first pair of real scissors).* "Tomorrow is guess-who's birthday?" "OUR birthday!" "No, it's mommy's!" "NO-o-o-o-o-O!"
