It’s that time again – where I give up all attempts to create a in-depth, humorous yet emotionally-resonant essay about the goings-on of the McPherson household.  And there are goings-on!  The goings-on go on with such frequency that I’m exhausted by the time the goings-on are in bed that I zone out rather than write.  So it’s the time when I throw a bunch of pictures from my iPhone on the blog, dig up some funny kid quotes from my Facebook feed and aggregate them all in the blog.  Family moments via technology.  Enjoy! 

An “instrument petting zoo” before a youth orchestra concert.

Me: That’s a really tall tower Sam. You’re a builder!
Sam: I am a master!

Sams’s current say of saying Good Night or Good Bye to anybody is “Bye-Bye! We’ll go to frozen yogurt tomorrow!”

Clare: “Mom, we are such good helpers!  What would you do without us?”

Clare: “I miss Sammy when I’m at school.  But he’s always in my heart.”

 While neither J nor I are particularly artistic or crafty but I can hold my own with preschool crafts.  The kids rarely go a day without coloring, painting, cutting and gluing or doing some sort of art project. 

Monday mornings have become the time when I let the kids get into the most complex, elaborate and messy projects.  They usually stay in their PJs and make a glorious mess creating art. 

Sam is still more interested in process than the production.  He wants to move the paint brush along the paper, see the paint mix with water in the cup, scribble crayons in big circles, and cut a hundred tiny cuts along the edge of the paper.  He doesn’t really care about the end result so much, but he loves the tactile experience of creating things with his hands. 

Clare is moving into phases of creating things and using them to tell stories.  It’s so fun to see what she creates.  Most of her pictures are of happy stick figures, holding hands in front of houses with lots of windows.  Every now and then she moves to a new subject and it’s always fun to see what she comes up with.  The picture above is an airplane (the big black lumpy thing) with colorful “attitudes” next to it.  On the back she drew a bunch of peace signs, to signify that the “attitudes” were happy ones. 

 

The artists, hard at work on new creations.