Creativity Flows

I know I've mentioned our little "artwork factory" before.... I try to keep up with scanning Cooper's really cool or special drawings. He loves his art class in school, and we've heard from his art teacher how creative he is. We agree (& credit his Mimaw Jones & Great, Great Grandma Gilmore - the artists in our families)!

Here are a few, of the many, recent creations:

A dinosaur book in the making

A sweet lion in the midst of many dinosaurs

He was working on the dragon below when I went to pick him up from his after school program; an older boy (a 2nd grader) was watching him draw and turned to me to say, "Cooper is a really good drawer.... for a kindergartner."

I like the way he has the sun coming up behind the layers of hills.

He also writes lots & lots of sweet notes with his artwork.

Here's one he gave me to take to work with me (he's started signing his name in cursive).

I hadn't realized until now that it was possible to LOVE someone's handwriting this much.

3 inches and a 3 year old mind

Brady, my you-never-know-what-he'll-say child, cracked me up on the drive home today. We were driving on the interstate heading to pick Cooper up from the after school program, when Brady urgently announced that he had to go pee.

Here's how the conversation went from there:
Me: "You're going to have to hold it, we're on the interstate and I can't stop"
Brady: "Ok, I'm holding it" (literally holding himself)
Me: "Good. How long can you hold it?"
Brady: "Oh, about 3 inches"

I couldn't resist laughing out loud at his random but hilarious response. His timing, pauses & sheer determination about what he is saying are really part of what makes him so funny. Some of his antics do require a lot of will power to resist laughing, like this moment with Rob last week.... Brady had gotten into some trouble in daycare for hitting a friend. Rob was having a serious talk with him, but Brady had lots of reasons why he thought it was ok to hit this daycare friend. Rob finally said, "Brady, the bottom line is YOU CAN'T HIT YOUR FRIENDS." To this Brady responded, "The TOP LINE is that I can hit whoever I want!" Never a dull moment with this one!!