Garrett is often left to his own devices in the morning before his bus leaves for school. In that two hours, I try to spend at least half an hour reading, talking or playing a game with him. The rest of the time he is expected to entertain himself quietly. Today he asked for some paper to draw a picture. When he was done, he asked for colored pencils to 'add some color'. This is what he drew:
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| "My Family" by Garrett age 5 |
This is his best drawing to date and I praised him for all the hard work he did adding details and coloring neatly. Garrett explained to me that the picture is our family and the clouds spelled out our names: Mom, Dad, Casia and Garrett. He told me that there is a story to go along with the picture and began to tell it to me. I stopped him just long enough for me to run and get a piece of paper so I could write it down. Here is his story, it's short and sweet:
My Family
Once upon a time, there was a mom and a dad. The mom was a beautiful butterfly and the dad was a big tortoise. And then they had a baby seed. She loved to roll around but then one day she buried herself. When she grew into a beautiful flower, they had a baby bee, but he couldn't fly yet. When he was ten months old he could fly, and then they were a big family.
By this time, we had to stop so he could get ready for school. I asked him if I could put it on my blog and he got so excited that I wanted to share his picture and story, he was beaming with pride. At the bus stop, he informed me that there was more to the story. I'm really enjoying this buddy creativity from my usually rough and tumble little boy.
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